讀富蘭克林的一點八卦

一個朋友給富蘭克林介紹結婚對象，富蘭克林表示滿意。但是要求一百法郎的嫁妝，女方父母表示沒法負擔，富蘭克林unrommantically 表示可以they could mortgage their home. 女方家庭斷了這份關係，書中寫道， 因為憤怒或者暗下希望女兒和富蘭克林私奔，嫁妝就不了了之了 。原句是這麽寫的： The girl's family promptly broke off the relationship, either out of rage or ( as Franklin suspected) in the hope that the courtship has gone so far that they would elope without a dowry. 

Benjamin Franklin Walter Isaacson