Nothing that _we_ do will be taken seriously.

I am afraid of their laughing at me, Amelius; but I am afraid of nothing else.' I did my best to undeceive her.

I told her plainly that people unequally matched in years--women older than men, as well as men older than women--were not uncommonly married among us.

The council only looked to their being well suited in other ways, and declined to trouble itself about the question of age.

I don't think I produced much effect; she seemed, for once in her life, poor thing, to be too happy to look beyond the passing moment.