looking marriage service Prayer-book, seems humiliating a giver-away r — Thomas Hardy, Jude Obscure

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I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. According to the ceremony as there printed, my bridegroom chooses me of his own will and pleasure; but I don’t choose him. Somebody gives me to him, like a she-ass or she-goat, or any other domestic animal.

Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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