18. Whence follow misunderstandings, quarrels, appeals, ineffectual
reconciliations, separations, elopements; or, at best, indifference;
perhaps, aversion.--Memorandum; A good image of unhappy wedlock, in the
words YAWNING HUSBAND, and VAPOURISH WIFE, when together: But separate,
both quite alive.
19. Few married persons behave as he likes. Let me ponder this with awe
and improvement.
20. Some gentlemen can compromise with their wives, for quietness sake;
but he can't. Indeed I believe that's true; I don't desire he should.
21. That love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
22. That there are fewer instances of men's than women's loving better
after marriage. But why so? I wish he had given his reasons for this!
I fancy they would not have been to the advantage of his own sex.
23. That a woman give her husband reason to think she prefers him before
all men. Well, to be sure this should be so.
24. That if she would overcome, it must be by sweetness and
complaisance; that is, by yielding, he means, no doubt.
25. Yet not such a slavish one neither, as should rather seem the effect
of her insensibility, than judgment or affection.
26. That the words COMMAND and OBEY shall be blotted out of the
Vocabulary.
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