绝嗣
1."5th younger brother perhaps need not be over anxious. Both of you are not even over 30 yet. Can this really mean the end of the line?" 
2.If one were really worried that the family line will be extinguished, one would only be allowed to adopt a child from within the family. How could one allow in someone with a different family name and allow the ancestral line to be deranged.
3.It would also have required real perverseness not to have understood from the poetic imagery of the prologue that Labour was espoused to Commerce, and Clergy to Nobility, and that the two happy couples possessed between them a magnificent golden dolphin (dauphin) which they proposed to adjudge only to the most beautiful damsel.
