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Post by The Smith on Aug 5, 2012 15:01:56 GMT -5
Lymon replied, "I have found they rarely do. At least in obvious ways."
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Post by Marie on Aug 5, 2012 15:03:54 GMT -5
"I know. But I don't know what to do," she sighed. "I don't know how to think about the future even."
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Post by The Smith on Aug 5, 2012 15:20:29 GMT -5
Lymon said, "You have many options available to you. You must simply choose one, and follow it. The young often fret more then is necessary. If you choose a future you dislike there is almost always room for maneuver."
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Post by Marie on Aug 5, 2012 15:28:51 GMT -5
"How so? I've always been led to believe that it's not so easy for a woman to have options," she pointed out.
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Post by The Smith on Aug 5, 2012 15:45:59 GMT -5
"Well that might be true for many, but your fate is in our hands. Your mother has written me and asked Lord Hightower to find a proper match for you." Lymon said.
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Post by Marie on Aug 5, 2012 15:53:48 GMT -5
Mariya gasped and put a hand to her moiuth.
"A match! But...that's still not my choice, is it?"
She was so shocked she didn't care that she sounded sulky at the prospect.
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Post by The Smith on Aug 5, 2012 15:59:24 GMT -5
"Nope, but to be quite honest my brother has more important matters at hand, so he has dispensed the duty to my hands." Lymon smiled at her, and asked, "And I wanted your opinion on the matter."
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Post by Marie on Aug 5, 2012 16:13:01 GMT -5
"Oh...Um...I try not to think about marriage," she said. "It frightens me a little. But I've never met a man I could consider marrying."
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Post by The Smith on Aug 5, 2012 16:33:38 GMT -5
"So you do not wish to marry?" Lymon asked.
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Post by Marie on Aug 5, 2012 16:44:20 GMT -5
"I don't know."
She was pink with confusion.
"Sometimes I think I don't want to at all. But I don't want to be a septa either. But I don't think there's another choice. And...I just don't know."
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Post by The Smith on Aug 5, 2012 16:45:55 GMT -5
Lymon said, "I am afraid the choices are to get married or to run forever. And the second is no option at all."
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Post by Marie on Aug 5, 2012 16:59:55 GMT -5
"I know that. But it frightens me that I would be in a man's power in that way," she confessed.
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Post by The Smith on Aug 5, 2012 17:18:54 GMT -5
"I am not sure what you mean by that." Lymon said.
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Post by Marie on Aug 5, 2012 17:25:14 GMT -5
"The law says that a man of noble blood has power over his wife. He has the right to demand her obedience and when he wants to go to bed with her and everything."
She blushed when she mentioned going to bed.
"What if my husband was unkind to me?"
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Post by The Smith on Aug 5, 2012 17:33:33 GMT -5
Lymon replied, "That is always a risk, but we should act to make sure it does not."
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