Crossword-Solution: MISMATING 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The three dread Sisters who determine the fate of men must have laughed amongst themselves at such an obvious mismating, knowing well how inevitably it would tangle the threads of many other lives than the two immediately concerned.

The prevalence of divorce places before young men and women sad examples of mismating, of incompetent homemakers, of wrecked homes.

But with Harold it is really a perfectly flagrant and dreadful case of mismating--due entirely to the poor boy's thoughtless chivalry--barely twenty-eight, mind you--as if a man nowadays knows his mind at all well before thirty-five.

And I added that, in my opinion, as a mere layman, he was very well off; that he had been at least relieved of the great, continued trouble which follows a mismating, and that it would be time enough for him to chafe at the light chain still restraining him, when he was sure he wanted to replace it by another.

Cupid is said to have made much havoc in the Community, and though very little mismating is to be traced to the intimacy of the life there, fourteen marriages have been attributed to friendships begun at Brook Farm, and there was even one wedding there, that of John Orvis to John Dwight's sister, Marianne.