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    was heard in the house or about it , from sunrise to sunset , but the sounds of brooms , brushes , mops , and all the multiplied et ceteras necessary to household purification ; while nearly all the remainder of the four and twenty hours ( for she was no sleeper , and detested wir idle a propensity as sleep in others ) was devoted to florid lectures and ejaculations , more emphatic than polite , on the slovenliness of bachelors and the laziness of their servant s *

    ] V * Blie doctor discovered that the lady , who had said so little before marriage , could say a great deal too much after it ; that ihdtrgh he had gained so much admiration from her as a suitor , he ^ dtrnone whatever as a husband . However * he goodnaturedly f&feuaded himself that there were sufficient grounds for the change ; that his house was really a nest of enormities ; and he

    gesdlved , heroically , to endure the purgatory of the process of reformation for the sake of the paradise which was to be the result . < ! $ frs . <> Drennan led her forces into the field ; carpets were taken dp ; and hangings taken down ; fires were banished because they made dirt ; ^ books because they made litter . Sancho was voted a brute unworthy of the least encouragement ; the quiet domestic

    pa ^ notwitfastanding her innate love of her home , under almost fiwn / eipcunistahces , fled outright of her own accord , and never was heard ! of more ; the swallow ceased to build beneath the eaves of ttoehpuse ; the robin red-breast to visit the cill of the windows ; an alarum clock , which , like the statue of Memnon , sounded at aiinrise ^ ^ bs * introduced into the hall ; and everything flew or Sfcodd > affrighfced before the bride , but Dolly the cook .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/4/