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composed , an air of satisfaction animated his features , and he
looked about him with a degree of self-complaisance . c Now , ' said Leonard , c tell me Mr . Tusmann , why you acted so strangely when the bride made her appearance at the window of the old tower ? We are older acquaintances than you may suppose , and you need not scruple to speak before this honest old gentleman . ' 6
Honourable professor ,, ' replied the private secretary of the chancery , ' for you must allow me to give you that title , as you are , I am convinced , a skilful artist , and ought to be by rights a professor of the academy of sciences , you must know , then , that I intend to marry before next spring , and I could not remain unmoved when it pleased you , honourable professor , to show rue a happy ' bride . ' f
What V cried the old man , in a shrill voice , what ! you intend to marry ; you are too old , and you are as ugly as a . ' Mr . Tusmann was quite stupified at the inconceivable levity of the ancient ; he was unable to answer a word . < Never mind , ' said Leonard , ' what the old man says , it is his manner , he does not mean to offend you . For myself , I will avow , that it appears to me you think about marriage rather late in life ; why you must be near fifty V
* On the ninth of October , St . Denis' day , I shall be forty-eight / answered Mr . Tusmann , with some slight degree of vexation . ' But , ' continued Leonard , that is not the only obstacle . You have lived until now a retired and innocent life ; you know nothing of the fair sex , and are not likely to manage your proposed new state of affairs with discretion . ' c What ! ' exclaimed Mr . Tusmann , ' I not know how to manage
my affairs with discretion ! my dear professor , you must consider me a very foolish man . I assure you , on the contrary , that I weigh carefully the result of all my actions ; and when I was stricken by the arrow of that little traitor , called Cupid by the ancients , it caused me much trouble and anxiety . When a person wishes to pass an examination , is he not obliged to study diligently the sciences on which he will be interrogated ? Well , honourable professor , my marriage is an examination for which I assiduously prepare myself , and which I hope to pass with honour . Observe , worthy professor , observe the little book which I always carry about me , and unceasingly read , since I resolved to fall in love and marry ; and then be convinced that I am not entirely without experience , although I will allow , until quite lately , a perfect
stranger to the fair sex . ' So saying , the private secretary drew from his pocket a little book , bound in parchment , and opened it at the title-page , which was thus conceived : * Short Treatise on Wisdom ; from which may be learned the Art of Conducting your own Affairs , or the Affairs of Others , with
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/38/
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