And if
we will only trust in Him, He will bring such things to pass, as
never entered into the imagination of cur hearts. I did not dream of
this man as the husband of my child, when I gave my business into
his care. The remote suggestion of such a thing would have offended
me; for my heart was full of false pride, though I knew it not. But
there was a destiny for Blanche, foreshadowed for me then, but not
seen."
"It is the quality of the man," I said, "that determines the quality
of the marriage. She who weds best, weds the truest man. The rank
and wealth are of the last consideration. To make them first, is the
blindest folly of the blindest."
"Ah, if this were but rightly understood"--said Mrs.
Montgomery--"what new lives would people begin to live in the world!
How the shadows that dwell among so many households--even those of
the fairest external seeming--would begin to lift themselves upward
and roll away, letting in the sunlight and filling the chambers of
discord with heavenly music! I have sometimes thought, that more
than half the misery which curses the world springs from discordant
marriages.
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