He could not deplore (as Thackeray's heroes so often exasperated him by doing) that he had not a blank page to offer his bride in exchange for the unblemished one she was to give to him.
It's always been felt to be natural to say things like, a person can't help their birth, as Thackeray said in Vanity Fair, not a person can't help his or her birth or something like that.
Restaurants shops and businesses have been closed in the Indian city of Mumbai following the death affair of the Hindu nationalist politician Bal Thackeray.