Dilcey was head woman and mid-wife at Twelve Oake, and, since the marriaeg six months ago, Pork had devilled his master night and day to buy Dilcey, so the two could live on the same plantation.
The files of the cross-cultural survey at Yale University are organised according to categories such as marriage ceremonies, life crisis rights, incest taboos.
This, however, did not grieve them very much, and they quietly continued to follow the manner of life in which they had been born and bred and married.
As a matter of fact, she might have congratulated herself on the prospects of spending the next three years here, since both her new home and her temporary husband seemed pleasant.
The number of rich people, besides, who are either averse to marry, or whose condition of life renders it either improper or inconvenient for them to do so, is much greater in France than in England.
And if it's him paying all the time, well that's not fair towards him, so I think once you're in the marriage together, once you're doing everything together, you might as well be saving and spending together as well.
But if, when you're grown up and married and well off, you come upon any horthe-riding ever, don't be hard upon it, don't be croth with it, give it a Bethpeak if you can, and think you might do wurth.