The Untilled Field (World Classics) by George Moore

Author:George Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, novel, book, bestseller, top10, interactive media, urban romantics
Publisher: Urban Romantics
Published: 2018-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

“How do you make up your marriages?”

“The marriages are made by the parents, and I’ve often seen it that the young couple did not see each other until the evening before the wedding—sometimes not until the very morning of the wedding. Many a marriage I’ve seen broken off for a half a sovereign—well,” he said, “if not for half a sovereign, for a sovereign. One party will give forty-nine pounds and the other party wants fifty, and they haggle over that pound, and then the boy’s father will say, “Well, if you won’t give the pound you can keep the girl.”

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