anni obiter thalamo pares: quid morer multis? adulescens, solus tenuis peregrinus, filius familias et e patria patre non solum non volente verum et ignorante discedens, puellam non inferiorem natalibus, facultatibus superiorem, medio episcopo, quia lector, solacio comitis, quia cliens, socru non inspiciente substantiam, sponsa non despiciente personam, uxorem petit, impetrat, ducit.
Time passed, and the marriageable age arrived. Not to make a long story of it, this young man, alone and of modest resources, a stranger, a minor who left his native place not only without the consent but without the knowledge of his father, sought, won, and married a girl of not inferior birth and of superior fortune, with the mediation of the bishop, because he was a Reader, and the sympathy of the Count, because he was a client; for the mother did not look into his means any more than the girl looked down upon his person.
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