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"A woman of seven-and-twenty" said Marianne after pausing a moment "can never hope to feel or inspire affection again; and if her home be uncomfortable or her fortune small I can suppose that she might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse for the sake of the provision and security of a wife. In his marrying such a woman therefore there would be nothing unsuitable. It would be a compact of convenience and the world would be satisfied. In my eyes it would be no marriage at all but that would be nothing. To me it would seem only a commercial exchange in which each wished to be benefited at the expense of the other."