I am annoyed that you should dream of wishing to marry a simple rustic, the daughter of my lodge keeper.

It is so supremely ridiculous that I can hardly treat the matter seriously." "It is serious enough for me," returned his son with a long, deep sigh.
"If I do not marry Dora Thorne, I shall never marry at all." "Better that than a mesalliance," said Lord Earle, shortly.
"She is good," cried Ronald--"good and fair, modest and graceful.

Her heart is pure as her face is fair.

What mesalliance can there be, father?
I never have believed and never shall believe in the cruel laws of caste.

In what is one man better than or superior to another save that he is more intelligent or more virtuous ?" "I shall never interfere in your politics, Ronald," said Lord Earle, laughing quietly.