The things we do!

George, will officiate in the same place at scores and scores more of
such marriages: and St. George of England may behold virgin after virgin
offered up to the devouring monster, Mammon (with many most respectable
female dragons looking on)--may see virgin after virgin given away, just
as in the Soldan of Babylon's time, but with never a champion to come to
the rescue!


CHAPTER LIX
In which Achilles loses Briseis

Although the years of the Marquis of Farintosh were few, he had spent
most of them in the habit of command; and, from his childhood upwards,
had been obeyed by all persons round about him. As an infant he had but
to roar, and his mother and nurses were as much frightened as though he
had been a Libyan lion. What he willed and ordered was law amongst his
clan and family. During the period of his London and Parisian
dissipations his poor mother did not venture to remonstrate with her
young prodigal, but shut her eyes, not daring to open them on his wild
courses.


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