Early Marriages
Persona who did not marry,, in the • 'exceeding verdure of you 'h are apt to be prevented from tacking wives or .3 r<:Jinsoinri« t<« themselves in later years ■i- • b'^r the appalling conviction that they wilUhflive to pieathe residue of their days in $be $ciety of the same pT^on; thatfhe^sam'B face will perpetuuU v confront them at the breaklast t»ble: and that their mutual attachment will -. he tempered by tn apprhenfiion that they are realising the fate.: ot Frankenstein;" To those abimt to marry,' And 'who havp outlived the age of - -•'■ «Dthußiasnf, 1 the question -which •uggestiif itsVfif ia— whwiiher, a; conBiaerable amount of boredom I>eing inseparable from existence, orie^ is fustified in running the ri-k >ot increaeingiit oa the chuhce that the Tenture may prove a. pu.ccch». WJiat ifJti^eofmn'rimony i>truei» a Ifss-r degree ot triendihip, and of e v«ry N;rm human iutimacy. -.Thefftis a n»af;neiic : quiity iu nature which, without n< t j of preparation^ rnvsteriouslv informs us that the charm has gone from those .iwhpm we have been Accustomed to regard as companions after pur own Jieart, that the whole rautua! at--traotionhai departed:, and that Damon . -»nd Pythia* liave exhauite4 eaeh >■ 'iirtier^-Wdridi^ ■■ : - * -
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1, 5 January 1884, Page 3
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196Early Marriages Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1, 5 January 1884, Page 3
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