A dowry is an archaic marriage custom where the bride or her family is required to give a gift of money or valuable goods to the groom or his family. In some areas where this was practiced, the size of the necessary dowry was directly proportional to the groom's social standing, thus making it virtually impossible for lower class women to marry into upper class families. In some cases where a woman's family was too poor to afford any dowry whatsoever, she either simply was forbidden from ever marrying, or at most became a concubine to a richer man who could afford to support a large household.
interested--equally interested, there is no difference between us,
COPYRIGHT. I use them in no sordid sense, believe me, and those
my children, coming after me, trudged in the mud, and knew by the
been of some use, than I would have them ride in their carriages,
see, I confess, why one should be obliged to make the choice, or
so justly celebrated, should not blow out of her trumpet a few
contented herself.
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had existed any law in this respect, Scott might not have sunk
add new creatures of his fancy to the crowd which swarm about you
touching scene in the great man's life, when he lay upon his couch,
rippling of the river he had so well loved, over its stony bed. I
body by his honourable struggle, and hovering round him the
Deans, Rob Roy, Caleb Balderstone, Dominie Sampson--all the
innumerable overflowing the chamber, and fading away in the dim
and hanging down their heads in shame and sorrow, that, from all
delight for millions, they brought him not one friendly hand to
that land in which his own language was spoken, and in every.html">every.html">every house
grateful dollar-piece to buy a garland for his grave. Oh! if every
Dryburgh Abbey, would but remember this, and bring the recollection
that. You have given me a new reason for remembering this day,
and you have given those who are nearest and dearest to me a new
that, although I should grow ever so gray, I shall need nothing to
from this time you are inseparably connected with every recurrence
imagination, have the unfading pleasure of entertaining you as my
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