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fugitive: between you and such an event there are two sepulchres to pass."
The barrier was practically as strong as any that can be constructed by the law, but it was not found strong enough to exclude the guilty wish.
The Bishop of London is the most formidable opponent of the bill, and I hope therefore I shall not be accused of presumption if I venture to scrutinize another passage of his speech:
"Now, my Lords, with regard to the question of expediency. I look at the state of society in this country, and I see reason to think, that the prohibition which prevents the intermarriage of persons within certain near degrees of affinity, is the very safe-guard of our domestic relations. Whatever advantages, my Lords, might result from its removal, in my opinion, they would be more than counterbalanced by the evils that would flow from that measure. There are cases, my Lords, I admit, where a widower is desirous of marrying the sister of his deceased wife, because he thinks that he has thereby a fairer chance of obtaining for his orphan children a kind mother, and a faithful protectress, than if he were to introduce under his roof a strange step-mother; but there are many more cases, in the proportion of fifty to one where the husband would be desirous of having the benefit of the same maternal care over his orphan children shown them by the sister of his deceased wife, without any intention of marrying her; where perhaps his affections so linger about the grave of his deceased partner as shut out altogether from his
