I think so because her family is high and noble, and because he is low and ignoble.

When one has an opinion on such matters, one cannot but apply it to things and people around one; and having applied my opinion to her, the next step naturally is to apply it to myself.
Were I Miss Gresham, I would not marry Mr Moffat though he rolled in gold.

I know where to rank Miss Gresham.

What I want to know is, where I ought to rank myself ?" They had been standing when she commenced her last speech; but as she finished it, the doctor moved on again, and she moved with him.
He walked on slowly without answering her; and she, out of her full mind, pursued aloud the tenor of her thoughts.
"If a woman feels that she would not lower herself by marrying in a rank beneath herself, she ought also to feel that she would not lower a man that she might love by allowing him to marry into a rank beneath his own--that is, to marry her." "That does not follow," said the doctor quickly.

"A man raises a woman to his own standard, but a woman must take that of the man she marries." Again they were silent, and again they walked on, Mary holding her uncle's arm with both her hands.