The Importance of Marriage

Ivanely each had at first no definite intention of marrying, but when the girl fell in love with him he said to himself, really, why shouldn't I marry? Prascovia Furovna came of a good family, was not bad looking, and had some little property. The marriage gave him personal satisfaction, and at the same time it was considered the right thing by the most highly placed of his associates. So Ivanely each got married. But from the first months of his wife's pregnancy, something new, unpleasant, depressing, and unseemly, unexpectedly showed itself. His life, without any reason, de Geaty de Kerr, as Ivane