Her husband is of her class, and her life with him will chasten her.

While here--what have we here ?" He began to pace the floor as he was wont to do when he prepared a sermon.
"Here we have a flagrant example of what is nothing less than spiritual miscegenation--that's it!--why didn't I think of that phrase before--spiritual miscegenation.

A rattle-brained boy, with the connivance of a common magistrate, effects a certain kind of alliance with a person inferior to him in every point of view--birth, breeding, station, culture, wealth--a person, moreover, who will doubtless be glad to relinquish her so-called rights for a sum of money.

Can that, I ask you, be called a _marriage ?_ Can we suppose an all-wise God to have joined two natures so ill-adapted, so mutually exclusive, so repellent to each other after that first glamour is past.

Really, such a supposition is not only puerile but irreverent.