And what ARE such marriages?
Hunger marryin' thirst! Poverty united to misery! Men and women ignorant and stunted in mind and body, bound together by a sacrament, givin' them the right to bring others, equally distorted, into the wurrld.

And when they're born you baptise them, and you have more souls entered on the great register for the Holy Church.

Bodies livin' in perpetual torment, with a heaven wavin' at them all through their lives as a reward for their suffering here.

I tell ye ye're wrong! Ye're wrong! Ye're wrong! The misery of such marriages will reach through all the generations to come.

I'd rather see vice--vice that burns out and leaves scar-white the lives it scorches.