That is what father
says. What men ought to want is liberty.'
'It is terrible to be tied up in a small circle,' said the Duke's
daughter.
'What do you mean, Lady Mary?'
'I thought you were to call me Mary. What I mean is this. Suppose
that Silverbridge loves you better than all the world.'
'I hope he does. I think he does.'
'And suppose he cannot marry you, because of his--aristocracy?'
'But he can.'
'I thought you were saying yourself--'
'Saying what? That he could not marry me! No indeed! But that
under certain circumstances I would not marry him. You don't
suppose that I think he would be disgraced? If so I would go away
at once, and he should never again see my face or hear my voice. I
think myself good enough for the best man God every made. But if
others think differently, and those others are closely concerned
with him and would be so closely concerned with me, as to trouble
our joint lives;--then will I neither subject him to such sorrow
nor will I encounter it myself.'
'It all comes from what you call aristocracy.
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