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He had pointed out to her the convenience of the match which he had at heart, and was bound to say, that mutual convenience was of all things the very best in the world to marry upon the only thing. "Look at your love-marriages, my dear young creature.
To one whose heart is altogether free, the knowledge of being deeply loved, and by a man whose attachment would do honour to any woman, is a thought so soothing, so alluring, that from it spring half the marriages not strictly love-marriages which take place in the world; sometimes, though not always, ending in real happiness.
He had pointed out to her the convenience of the match which he had at heart, and was bound to say, that mutual convenience was of all things the very best in the world to marry upon the only thing. "Look at your love-marriages, my dear young creature.
"Of course I did see Max before the wedding, but it made no difference. I obeyed my mother, peace upon her soul. I thought love-marriages were something which none but educated girls could dream of. My mother peace upon her soul told me to throw all fancies out of my mind, that I was a simple girl and must get married without fuss. And I did. In this country people have different notions.
As for Miss Amory, she was contented enough with Pen as long as there was nobody better. And how many other young ladies are like her? and how many love-marriages carry on well to the last? and how sentimental firms do not finish in bankruptcy? and how many heroic passions don't dwindle down into despicable indifference, or end in shameful defeat?
Philip ground his teeth together and said nothing. "Gentlemen sometimes judge hardly. But I feel that you, and at all events your mother so really good in every sense, so really unworldly after all, love-marriages are made in heaven." "Yes, Miss Abbott, I know. But I am anxious to hear heaven's choice. You arouse my curiosity. Is my sister-in-law to marry an angel?" "Mr.
Nodelman, and that's why it's so hard for me to think of marriage as a cold proposition. I don't think I could marry a girl I did not love." I expected an argument against love-marriages, but Nodelman had none to offer. Instead, he had me dilate on the bliss and the agony of loving. He asked me questions and eagerly listened to my answers.
"I am not sure," said Batushka, avoiding the point of the objection, "that love-marriages are always the happiest ones; and as to the mother-in-law, there are or at least there were until the emancipation of the serfs a mother-in-law and several daughters-in-law in almost every peasant household." "And does harmony generally reign in peasant households?" "That depends upon the head of the house.