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Updated: June 26, 2025
Disguised from each other by our faces, we were also disguised by our names. Her mock-marriage had changed her surname. My step-father's will had changed mine. Her Christian name was the commonest of all names of women; and mine was almost as far from being remarkable among the names of men.
She had fallen back upon her own lofty soul, and had sought refuge in that resolute nature of hers which had sustained her before this in other dire emergencies. "Yes," she said, sternly, "a lie; and this mock-marriage is a lie. Villains, stand off. I am going home." "Not without me," said Leon, who for a moment stood silent, amazed at the change in Edith's voice and manner.
"You may go, Dolores," she said, and motioned away the old woman, who had been murmuring congratulations. "Si, maestra, buena maestra," said Dolores smilingly, as she withdrew. "'Maestra? That means 'mistress," ruminated Myra. "In what sense is it used? He used the word when he addressed his men after the mock-marriage. 'Nueva maestra, I think he called me.
And reflection dissuaded me; a legal union left me, a young and not unhandsome man, irrevocably fettered to an old woman; whereas a mock-marriage afforded an eternal option to compound the match for a consideration with the lady's relatives, to whom, I had instinctively divined, her alliance with me would prove distasteful. And accordingly "
"Oh, no, my Lord," answered the woman; "I've heard it is to wait upon Sir Christopher Harflete's wife in her trouble." "I wish that I could call her by the honoured name of wife," said the Abbot, with a sigh. "But a mock-marriage does not make a wife, Mistress Megges, and, alas! the poor babe, if ever it should be born, will be but a bastard, marked from its birth with the brand of shame."
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