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One of these was the steady decline in the marriage rate, and the increasing proportion of unmarried women of all classes, but particularly of the more educated classes, requiring employment.
When they were once more on the road Mrs. Bellairs turned laughingly to her companion, "Tell me," she said, "don't you agree with me that a visit to the Parsonage furnishes a tolerably strong argument in favour of a clergy such as the Roman Catholic?" "That is, an unmarried one? Are many of your clergymen's wives like Mrs. Bayne?" "If you mean are they worn out, overworked women?
Priests were probably something better off under Henry VIII., but the statute remained in force, and marks an approach at least to their ordinary salary. The priest had enough, being unmarried, to supply him in comfort with the necessaries of life. The squire had enough to provide moderate abundance for himself and his family.
If a debt be contracted by an unmarried man or woman, and he or she marry afterwards, the person so taken in marriage and all the offspring become slave debtors.
An officious neighbor grabbed away the paper when Ward made a sign as though to tuck it into his pocket. "I'll read it," said the neighbor. "Mebbe my eyesight is better'n yourn." Then he read, in shrill tones: "NOTICE TO BACHELORS "Unmarried maiden lady, smart and good-looking, desires good husband.
Tanberry, who wasn't here, because she is out of town; but I do not imagine that you are inquiring about women. You mean: Was every unmarried male idiot who could afford a swallow-tailed coat and a clean pair of gloves cavorting about the place? Yes, miss, they were all here except two, and one of those is a fool, the other a knave." "Can't I know the fool?" she asked, eagerly.
"We have at least remained unmarried," he retorted. And then dinner was again announced. He was to take me out, and he came across the room to where I sat collapsed in a chair, and bent over me. "Do you know," he said, looking down at me with his clear, disconcerting gaze, "do you know that I have just grasped the situation?
And then the journey to church! I have heard that unmarried mothers, going out for the first time after their confinement, feel ashamed and confused, as if every passer-by must know their shameful secret. I was a kind of unmarried mother myself, God help me, but I had no such feeling.
They told her fully of the loneliness she would experience in a foreign country; the dangers and unpleasantness of the long ocean voyage she would have to take; and the unparalleled situation in which she would find herself on her return ten years later, unmarried at twenty-eight.
I was naturally anxious to assure that young lady as frequently and as emphatically as possible how much I appreciated her assistance, and how determined I was never to have any other mother-in-law but the one of my choice; nor could there be anything obscure in such a declaration, as of three sisters in the family that particular one was the only unmarried one.
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