And in a great number of cases, mere considerations of money and the like keep a man bound.

But conscience and habit--detestable habit--and fear of public opinion generally hold him.' 'All this is very interesting,' said Rhoda, with grave irony.
'By-the-bye, under the head of detestable habit you would put love of children ?' Barfoot hesitated.
'That's a motive I oughtn't to have left out.

Yet I believe, for most men, it is represented by conscience.

The love of children would not generally, in itself, be strong enough to outweigh matrimonial wretchedness.

Many an intelligent and kind-hearted man has been driven from his wife notwithstanding thought for his children.