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"And how came Miss Matilda not to marry him? " asked I. / "Oh, I don't know. She was willing enough, I think; but you know, / Cousin Thomas would not have been enough of a gentleman for the / rector and Miss Jenkyns. " / "Well! But they were not to marry him," said I impatiently. / "No; but they did not like Miss Matty to marry below her rank. You / know, she was the rector's daughter, and somehow they are related to / Sir Peter Arley; Miss Jenkyns thought a deal of that. " / "Poor Miss Mattie! " said I. / -- CRANFORD (Mrs. Gaskell).
The plentiful experiments, by various nations of late, in the difficult science of government by a democracy, have left some of us strongly of opinion that the ideal form of rule would be the despotism of the angel.