...where she had not sought it. Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from bein... ... eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, ... ...ld 6 Book I — Miss Brooke he affect her as a lover? The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could te... ...ite notion of what it consisted in, and thought that it would die out with marriage. In short, he felt himself to be in love in the right place, and w... ...eriod but for this liberal allowance of conclusions, which has facilitated marriage under the difficulties of civilization. Has any one ever pinched in... ...rriage as a prospect of rising in rank and getting a little nearer to that celestial condition on earth in which she would have nothing to do with vul... ...couraged a little defiance towards the critical strictness of persons whose celestial intimacies seemed not to improve their domestic manners, and whos...