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    Some such endearing insinuation from her downcast eyes inttHftd rtie adamantine heart of a Mr . Manning , a gentleman 6 f character and consequence , whose peculiar affinity for a woman like Harriet may be inferred from one or two points of his character . He had a high idea , not of his species , but of his sex , —an idea which analysis would have showed for its base the circumstance that he was one of that sex . So strong was his love of dominion

    and possession that he had made himself master of a large estate in the very midst of fens and fogs , because at a cheap pecuniary outlay it afforded him a large domain , for which , besides the purchase money , he paid an annual rental in ague and asthma . But then , in the midst of a shivering fit , he could exclaim ,

    * I am monarch of all I survey ;' that is , when the fog would let him see it . If the asthma was a necessary evil , an obsequious medical attendant , who would take frequent and judicious occasion to introduce an appeal to Mr . Manning , as lord of the manor , was decidedly a luxury . The law declares that a man who cannot pay for any unusual penchant in purse shall pay in person ; now Mr . Manning evidently thought he ought to pay in both .

    He looked upon woman as ' a creature pressed to the earth by original sin , ' that it was necessary for him to stoop very low to raise her , and that for such condescension she could scarcely be too grateful . He sagel y thought € love essentially a female passion / and therefore resolved ( of course no sooner said than done ) that the supply necessary to his matrimonial compact should entirely fill the ' weaker vessel / so much fitter to hold so volatile

    an essence . His faith in the Mosaic history of the creation was only inferior to his faith in his own infallibility . Man , fashioned immediately after the Deity / was ' perfect- / * fashioned in a strife of grandeur / was ' complete . ' Whereas woman , made merely because it was not good that this perfect and complete crestture should be alone , c not so properly created , as formed—made after man r hence

    while he draws his irradiation directly from the Deity , she only by reflex ; in fact , a sort of moonish lustre . Neither did he forget that man sinned only by instigation / that ' woman was the open transgressor . ' With all his convictions and reflections , Mr . Manning resolved

    ( as it is * not good for man to be alone * especially with the ague and asthma ) to take one of these r fair defects' so strong in ail that is evil and so strange to all that is good , and make her part of his perfect self—a sort of errata to the volume of his existence . Stepping into society with the conscious dignity of one who feels himself clothed with authority to rule the whole earth , and from the eminence of his creation assume the moral right to carry the sceptre in wedlock / he looked around upon his fragile inferiors , wondering whether any could be found worthy of wifehood with

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    ttt Sketch * of Domestic Life .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/22/