is not stunning that the idea of marriage is often understood as a social custom generally detached from love.
             This detachment not only concerns marriage directed by someone superior but also the economical benefits taken out of it. We can set an example in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, and more precisely in the chapters referring to the story of the young lovers Leonora and Horatio. With the appearance of Bellarmine, a fine "gentleman who owned a Coach and Six" (p.135), breaking into Leonora's life, she reconsiders her engagement with Horatio, who had "not even a Pair" (p.138). Being a young and inexperienced girl, Leonora asks her aunt for some piece of advice relating her love affair and this one answers that without any doubt she should marry Bellarmine as he possesses all that Horatio lacks, that is, fine clothes, good looks, gallantry and above all fortune.
             "I have lived longer in it than you, and I assure you there is not any thing worth our Regard besides Money: nor did I ever kno
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