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'I don't say but what if Roger is gaining five hundred a year by the time he's thirty, he shall not choose a wife with ten thousand pounds down; but I do say, if a boy of mine, with only two hundred a year which is all Roger will have from us, and that not for a long time goes and marries a woman with fifty thousand to her portion, I will disown him it would be just disgusting.
And now, steeped in the gall of as bitter a draught as experience forces folly to drink anew each day to the dregs the realization that, though the man marries the money only, he lives with the wife only Ross had met Adelaide again. "I'll go to Chicago in the morning," was his conclusion.
When a hunter marries his first wife he usually takes up his abode in the tent of his father-in-law and of course hunts for the family; but when he becomes a father the families are at liberty to separate or remain together as their inclinations prompt them.
And I I didn't know what to do about it. . . . So we drifted; and the catastrophe came very quickly. Let me tell you something; a West Pointer, an Annapolis man, knows what sort of life he's going into and what he is to expect when he marries. Usually, too, he marries into the Army or Navy set; and the girl knows, too, what kind of a married life that means. "But I didn't. Neither did Alixe.
'And then, as if this was not enough, and she had not stood sufficiently in the light of this child's sister, Betsey Trotwood, said my aunt, 'she marries a second time goes and marries a Murderer or a man with a name like it and stands in THIS child's light! And the natural consequence is, as anybody but a baby might have foreseen, that he prowls and wanders.
I can't, for my part, see how five years would have been more favorable to you than two." "My son Andrew is sixteen. By the time he is twenty-one he might help me." "There's not much chance of that unless he marries a fortune," said the squire, jocosely. "I suppose you will keep him at home to help you on the farm?" "We haven't talked the matter over yet. I will consult his wishes as far as I can.
Moss, deprecatingly; "I know there isn't a day-laborer works harder." "What's the use o' that," said Mr. Tulliver, sharply, "when a man marries, and's got no capital to work his farm but his wife's bit o' fortin? I was against it from the first; but you'd neither of you listen to me. And I can't lie out o' my money any longer, for I've got to pay five hundred o' Mrs.
The installation of a girl step-mother over youths of her own age places them all in rather a difficult position, and has the possible making of a tragedy in it. The widower who marries a spinster may go through all the glories of a smart wedding for a second or third time if he likes, seeing that it is the condition of the bride that decides such matters. Comparison with the Predecessor.
The whole book is a chronicle of the Baron's unsuccessful pursuit of a hard-hearted beauty named Larissa, mingled with little histories of the Baron's rivals, of a languishing Madam de Monbray, and of Larissa's mother. The fair charmer finally marries a count, and her lover, plunged into adequate despair, can barely exert himself to answer a false accusation trumped up by the revengeful Monbray.
He will also, I hope, remember that I am an extremely busy man with many and urgent claims on my time, and that I cannot always reply as quickly and as fully as I should like to do. Before a young man marries he should always seek advice from a trustworthy source with regard to his conduct as a husband.
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