"Even if the young man should not be at the bottom of the sea, we should never be presentable with him attached to the family--never in the world.

Such a name, and such common people for parents! What would Bowling Green say, my daughter?
We must all yield to the force of circumstances; and the circumstances are all against this Mr.Toodleburg tumbling himself into our family." She paused suddenly, and again viewed her ponderous figure in the glass, now adjusting one side of her skirts and then the other.

"I wonder if this dress really does become me?
Green and orange are in harmony with a complexion like mine," she said, turning to Mattie, and waiting for a reply.

But Mattie was trying to relieve her feelings of the grief that was filling her eyes with tears.
"To return to what I was saying, my daughter, sentimental marriages, I was going to say, (well, I will say it,) are fools' marriages.

Yes, they are.