Slander is more subtile than any microbe.
You cannot squander ten thousand a year and then balance the account by thrusting a stale bun, dipped in charity soup, into a beggar's hand.
Lolling on a velvet cushion in a fashionable church will not be a valid answer when you meet the poor girl 'beyond' whom you ground down to make trousers for twenty cents a pair. You didn't do it? You wore the trousers, it's all the same.
A cynic's description of the honeymoon—
Kisses allopathic.
Kisses homeopathic.
The cold douche.
Hot mustard plasters.
A lawyer's description of matrimony in the United States—
Court—Appeal. The suit filed.
Rival—an interpleader.
Marriage. Judgement given.
Household expenses. Costs.
Family jars. Proceedings for alimony.
Final hearing. Divorce absolute.
Quit claim. Deed to another man.