. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . ke out in both famerlies at nearly the same period; ourparients (Betsys and mine) slept reglarly every Sunday in thesame meetin-house, and the nabers used to obsarve, * Howthick the Wards and Peasleys air! It was a surblime site, inthe spring of the year, to see our sevral mothers (Betsys andmine) with their gowns pind up so thay couldnt sile emaffecshunitly bilin sope together and aboozin the nabers. In this matter more than in most others we do not willaccording to our reason, we reason according to cur will. THE CHOICE OF A HU
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . ke out in both famerlies at nearly the same period; ourparients (Betsys and mine) slept reglarly every Sunday in thesame meetin-house, and the nabers used to obsarve, * Howthick the Wards and Peasleys air! It was a surblime site, inthe spring of the year, to see our sevral mothers (Betsys andmine) with their gowns pind up so thay couldnt sile emaffecshunitly bilin sope together and aboozin the nabers. In this matter more than in most others we do not willaccording to our reason, we reason according to cur will. THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND. 51 True desire, the monition of nature, is much to be attendedto. But always we are to discriminate carefully between truedesire and false. The medical men tell us we should eatwhat we truly have an appetite for; but what we only falselyhave an appetite for we should resolutely avoid. Ouglit notchoice in matrimony to be guided by the same principle ? Above all things young ladies should ask God, the bestmaker of marriages, to direct their choice ^^^^B M ^ l9^M ^ g i^iijl^^^^^^ iMrar^ ^H^UH^ r^j^O^a ^^m ^ |w s CHAPTER VI. ON MAKING THE BEST OF A BAD MATRIMONIAL EARGAIN, * How poor are they who have not patience !What wound did ever heal, but by degrees ? —Shahespeare. Een now, in passing through the garden wallcs,Upon the ground I saw a fallen nest,Ruined and full of ruin ; and over it,Behold, the uncomplaining birds, alreadyEusy in building a new habitation,—Longfellow.
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