But
you must not, my dear, forget what belongs to your character, as my wife,
nor meanly stoop to her; though I know you will choose, by softness, to
try to move her to a proper behaviour. But it shall be my part to see,
that you do not yield too much.
However, continued he, as I would not publicly declare my marriage here,
I hope she won't come near us till we are in Bedfordshire; and then, when
she knows we are married, she will keep away, if she is not willing to be
reconciled; for she dares not, surely, come to quarrel with me, when she
knows it is done; for that would have a hateful and wicked appearance, as
if she would try to make differences between man and wife.--But we will
have no more of this subject, nor talk of any thing, added he, that shall
give concern to my dearest. And so he changed the talk to a more
pleasing subject, and said the kindest and most soothing things in the
world.
When we came home, which was about dinner-time, he was the same obliging,
kind gentleman; and, in short, is studious to shew, on every occasion,
his generous affection to me. And, after dinner, he told me, he had
already written to his draper, in town, to provide him new liveries; and
to his late mother's mercer, to send him down patterns of the most
fashionable silks, for my choice.
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