On that account they are the obstructive element in social history.

If I loved a woman of rank above my own she would make me a renegade; for her sake I should deny my faith.

I should write for the _St.James's Gazette_, and at last poison myself in an agony of shame.' A burst of laughter cleared the air for a moment, but for a moment only.

Peak's countenance clouded over again, and at length he said in a lower tone: 'There are men whose character would defy that rule.' 'Yes--to their own disaster.

But I ought to have made one exception.
There is a case in which a woman will marry without much regard to her husband's origin.