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But this mesalliance, this mating with Davus the detested instead of with Oedipus the adored, is not the only cause of indifference. The health of American wives, their muliebrity or womanly power, is sapped in various ways.
"White stockings humph!" he said. Somehow those white stockings suggested the ironical comment of the world upon his proposed mesalliance; then he laughed good-humouredly. "Taste is all a matter of habit, anyhow," said he to himself. "My own sister wouldn't have had any better taste if she hadn't been taught. And what am I?
As for the Cranes well, they were lazy and shiftless, for the most part. It would be a mésalliance for an Adams to marry a Crane. Still, it would doubtless have happened for Mattie, though a meek-looking damsel, had a mind of her own had it not been for Selena Ford, Mattie's older sister.
My uncle is marshal of France, and Duc de Raguse and I am the heir to his millions, but the Comte de Cambray will always consider it a mesalliance for his daughter to marry me." The note of bitter resentment, of wounded pride and smouldering hatred became more and more marked while he spoke: his voice now sounded hoarse and his throat seemed dry.
Yet she sighed sometimes her husband being no longer in evidence to fortify her in her choice of him and timidly dreaded what mortifications might be in store for her by reason of this mesalliance.
We should be reminded again that there was some pathos in the position, let us say, of the seducer's mother, who had built all her hopes upon developments which a mésalliance would overthrow, or in the position of some rival lover, stricken to the ground with the tragedy in which he had not even the miserable comfort of a locus standi.
The rector, however, she could not read so well; but few men she knew could withstand the fascinations of her cousin, backed as they were, by the glamour of half a million; and, though her mother, and, possibly, her father, too, would be shocked at the mésalliance and throw obstacles in the way, she was capable of removing them all, and she would do it, too, sooner than lose the only man she had ever cared for.
When the fact was bruited, it raised the wrath and ridicule of Ferdinand's family, and the Duke's sister Margaret, Duchess of Ferrara, had so lofty a disdain of his mésalliance with an inferior, that she drove him to desperation with her sarcasms.
Then the young calf's mother comes on the scene and asks her to spare her little pansy blossom not to blight his life with the frost of her follies. And of course she consents again. She's the great consenter always in the hands of friends, like an American politician. "The difficulty of saying nay to earnest pleading" prevents a mesalliance.
Between himself and Owen the earl's coronet never weighed a feather; he could not have abandoned his boy's heart to the man's fellowship more thoroughly had that man been an earl as well as himself. But he could not get over the feeling that Fitzgerald's worldly position was beneath that of his sister; that such a marriage on his sister's part would be a mesalliance.
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