“ When one lives in the world, a man or woman's marrying for money is too common to strike one as it ought. ”
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1816). copy citation
| Author | Jane Austen |
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| Source | Persuasion |
| Topic | money women |
| Date | 1816 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/105/105-h/105-h.htm |
Context
“I have interrupted you. Mr Elliot married then completely for money? The circumstances, probably, which first opened your eyes to his character."
Mrs Smith hesitated a little here. "Oh! those things are too common. When one lives in the world, a man or woman's marrying for money is too common to strike one as it ought. I was very young, and associated only with the young, and we were a thoughtless, gay set, without any strict rules of conduct. We lived for enjoyment. I think differently now; time and sickness and sorrow have given me other notions;”
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