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This is a strange bugbear, common to all the Mandingo towns, and much employed by the pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection; for as the kafirs are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as many as he can conveniently maintain and as it frequently happens that the ladies disagree among themselves, family quarrels sometimes rise to such a height, that the authority of the husband can no longer preserve peace in his household.
Now if he marries decently, that is some woman you know that can assist him in the world, let him have what he wants. It is not to save the money that I put it into your hands." "No, Scatcherd; not to save the money, but to save him. I think that while you are yet with him you should advise him to marry." "He does not care a straw for what I advise, not one straw. Why should he?
Did the word "man" as used in the decree, include "woman"? The President shook his head, and referred the question to his Highness. "It seems immaterial," observed the Duke. "If a man marries, a woman marries." "Ex vi terminorum," assented the Doctor. "But, sir," said the President, "there are more women than men in the Duchy." Duke Deodonato threw down his pen. "This is very provoking," said he.
There is as little free love in Ireland as there is free thought; men have ceased to care for women and women to care for men. Nothing thrives in Ireland but the celibate, the priest, the nun, and the ox. There is no unfaith, and the violence of the priest is against any sensual transgression. A girl marries at once or becomes a nun a free girl is a danger.
The King said in a passion, "You shall not have everything quite so much your own way; whosoever marries my daughter must fetch me from hell three golden hairs from the head of the devil; bring me what I want, and you shall keep my daughter." In this way the King hoped to be rid of him for ever.
His fus' wife had de easies' time an' de happies' time er ary woman in dis settlement. He's grieve' fer her a long time, but I reckon he's gittin' over it, an' de nex' 'oman w'at marries him'll git a box er pyo' gol', ef I does say it as is his own mammy." Rena had thought Wain rather harsh with his household, except in her immediate presence.
A woman who marries nowadays marries, if one may put it quantitatively, far less than she did even half a century ago; the married woman's property act, for example, has revolutionized the economic relationship; her husband has lost his right to assault her and he cannot even compel her to cohabit with him if she refuses to do so.
You could even see the wonder, like it was something you could take hold of. I suppose he wondered what could make a woman so happy, like that. "Lucky man!" he said. "All of us are not so fortunate." "Then it must be you don't covet the place or the title," said mother more soberly. "Any woman will crown the man she marries, if he will allow her. Paul went farther. He compelled it."
"I never blackguarded you none." "It's a title," explained Baldy, "up among the picture-cards; but it don't take no tricks. I'll tell you, Webb. It's a brand they're got for certain animals in Europe. Say that you or me or one of them Dutch dukes marries in a royal family. Well, by and by our wife gets to be queen. Are we king? Not in a million years.
"Donna Brigida," he said, "I will lay you the price of fifty new dresses that Fabio d'Ascoli never marries again!" He set his face once more toward the studio, and walked on without stopping until he arrived at the master-sculptor's door. "Marry again?" he thought to himself, as he rang the bell. "Donna Brigida, was your first failure not enough for you? Are you going to try a second time?"
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