Chapter

 1  3,3|     feel that it is time for marriage, baron; and - I am about
 2  3,3|      economy on the eve of a marriage which will no doubt double
 3  4,1|        I need only favor her marriage with the marquis. Ah, he
 4  6,4|     become reconciled to our marriage. They will give you a handsome
 5  6,4|    instantly appear with our marriage contract in his hands, and
 6  7,5| To-morrow I will show you my marriage certificate." ~"Why not
 7  8,4|      she must marry. Indeed, marriage is a sensible woman's only
 8 11,4|    Marquis de Valorsay. This marriage was Valorsay's only resource -
 9 11,5|      done every day. What is marriage in this age? Merely a business
10 12,2|   which is to constitute the marriage dowry of some deserving
11 12,2|      surely won't oppose our marriage?" ~"No, my son, nothing
12 12,3|   offer no opposition to his marriage! And was not this a great
13 13,6|      that I once assured the marriage of a brilliant viscount
14 13,8|   the point of contracting a marriage which will make me one of
15 14,5|  establish your identity; my marriage contract and your certificate
16 15,1|  would never give my hand in marriage to a man who was not of
17 15,1|      scandals which render a marriage inevitable. At the very
18 15,3|     effected, and finally, a marriage arranged with a large dowry,
19 15,4| believed so. But, alas! this marriage was the result of calculation,
20 15,6|  Here," she remarked, "is my marriage certificate, your certificate
21 19,2|      hope of preventing this marriage she had not hesitated to
22 19,3|  acknowledge you before your marriage, but this he refused to
23 19,4|   their scruples. Besides, a marriage with their son would protect