Should cousin John be invited, or should he not?
Julia was decidedly against it.

'She did not think,' she said, 'that she could stand up at the altar and conduct herself on an occasion so trying if she were aware that he were standing by her.' Mr.
Smirkie, of course, was not asked,--was not directly asked.

But equally, of course, he was able to convey his own opinion through his future bride.

Aunt Polly thought that the county would be shocked if a man charged with bigamy was allowed to be present at the marriage.

But the Squire was a man who could have an opinion of his own; and after having elicited that of Mr.Bromley, insisted that the invitation should be sent.
'It will be a pollution,' said Julia, sternly, to her younger sisters.
'You will be a married woman almost before you have seen him,' said Georgiana, the second, 'and so it won't matter so much to you.