Capitolo 27
acts on their his/her own responsibility, for the good one of their sex; but
never of them really spontaneous wish from the a lot of beginning. They has
avoided marriage, not because they thought of them him a shame and a
surrender, a betrayal to their sex, a producing scurvy to the unfair one
men's pretensions, but because there it existed to the duration some
I hinder in their way in the form of the interest dressed of the sacred hangings of some
other woman. When Mary Godwin chose to pair off himself/herself/themselves with Shelley,
her taken his/her good name in his/her hands; but there was still Harriet.
Hardly Harriet was dead, Mary showed her you/he/she didn't have deep principle
of involved action, Shelley getting married himself/herself/itself. When George Eliot chose
she challenged to spend his/her life with Lewes on you finish some equal liberty,
the artificial law; but there was anchor, his/her wife to be prevented the
possibility of a legalized union. Hardly Lewes was dead,
George Eliot showed her it had any involved principle getting married himself/herself/itself,
another man. _I_ now, has the rare opportunity to act otherwise; ME
to show the world from the long before I act from principle,
and from principle only. I can tell him in effect, 'Sees, here
the man of my choice, the man that I love, really and purely, the man
some one of You would have seen gladly offer him in legal
marriage to Your his/her own daughters. If I am able, it is probable that I go the beaten one
way that you prescribe, and if the legally gets married. But of mine really spontaneous wish
I disdain that degradation; I choose rather to be free. Any fear of
Your contempt, anybody theme of Your fanaticism, any contraction to Your cruelty,
it will prevent me to follow the thorny run I know to be the
you straighten one. I don't look for temporal end. I won't prove me false to the
future of my kind to protect himself/herself/themselves from Your hateful
unworthy treatment. I know on that scurvy foundations Your temple of
marriage is based and you/he/she is built, that compassionate victims languish and they die