Miss Balls, I remember the name, was daughter of an apoth--a practitioner in very large practice; my brother had very nearly succeeded in his suit .-- But difficulties arose: disappointments supervened, and--and I am sure he had no reason to regret the disappointment, which gave him this hand," said the Major, and he once more politely pressed Helen's fingers.
"Those marriages between people of such different rank and age," said Helen, "are sad things.

I have known them produce a great deal of unhappiness .-- Laura's father, my cousin, who--who was brought up with me"-- she added, in a low voice, "was an instance of that." "Most injudicious," cut in the Major.

"I don't know anything more painful than for a man to marry his superior in age or his inferior in station.

Fancy marrying a woman of low rank of life, and having your house filled with her confounded tag-rag-and-bobtail of relations! Fancy your wife attached to a mother who dropped her h's, or called Maria Marire! How are you to introduce her into society?
My dear Mrs.
Pendennis, I will name no names, but in the very best circles of London society I have seen men suffering the most excruciating agony, I have known them to be cut, to be lost utterly, from the vulgarity of their wives' connections.

What did Lady Snapperton do last year at her dejeune dansant after the Bohemian Ball?
She told Lord Brouncker that he might bring his daughters or send them with a proper chaperon, but that she would not receive Lady Brouncker who was a druggist's daughter, or some such thing, and as Tom Wagg remarked of her, never wanted medicine certainly, for she never had an h in her life.