Knowing the world, and knowing the upper or Beanstalk world intimately, she winked at nature's passions.

But when the legitimate affection of a brother and sister finds them interposing, they are, as little parsonically as possible, reproved.

If persistently intrusive, they are handed to the constable.
How, supposing the case of a wife?
Well, then comes the contest; and it is with an inferior, because not a born, legitimacy of union; which may be, which here and there is, affection; is generally the habit of partnership.

It is inferior, from not being the union of the blood; it is a matter merely of the laws and the tastes.

No love, she reasoned, is equal to the love of brother and sister: not even the love of parents for offspring, or of children for mother and father.