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\ &m » Not few were among the number of the proscribed ; a witty woman he abhorred : his familiarity with fog * migjfct account for that , no less than a belief ' That wit , like wine , intoxicates the brain , Too strong for feeble woman to sustain . '
A learned woman he loathed ; he allowed no learned lumber ' to cumber his own head : a vain woman he , of course , felt to be insupportable ; for those are ever the most offended at vanity in another who have the greatest share of vanity in themselves . In the midst of his doubts and difficulties Harriet appeared , and
they all vanished . She was submission personified , and very soon , in her peculiar way , convinced Mr . Manning that she thought him the wisest of men ; there needed nothing more to convince him that she was the most desirable of women . His appeal wa * immediately made to Mrs . Ward .
Justly concluding that she was of the popular opinion ,- —that ' Tis but in flowers of gold , That married bees find honey / —he showed her the' parchment scrolls delicious' of his fair estate , leaving , however , the fogs to speak for themselves on further acquaintance . Settlements were signed , ceremonies and satins , blessings and bridecake , duly dispensed , and Harriet departed for Shivershire Hall .
There Mr . Manning , by the high and mighty power of his matrimonial sceptre , planted the person of his wife ; but her mind , such as it was , the whiskered coxcomb had caught , and her incli-(nations lingered in London . There was a power to make her swear to love , honour , and obey , ' and she swore ; but there was no power to make her feel the glow of an adoring heart , the
veneration of an appreciating and satisfied mind , the acquiescence of a convinced and confiding spirit , —and she felt none of these * Mind , in the mean as in the mighty , is all beyond arbitrary control ; it makes laws for itself of which none know anything but itself ; it can believe and feel only upon conviction , and conviction cannot be forced upon it : the folly and fallacy of chaining the sea , or tying up the wind , is not so great as any attempt at the arbitrary control of an element more subtle and incomprehensible than either .
Years rolled on , the insipid became the heartless wife— -the (soulless mother . Schiller says that He deserves to find himseJf deceived
Who seeks a heart in the unthinking man . ' It may be added , or in the unthinking woman . Mr Manning ' s folly formed his punishment . To the errors of judgment he had already committed , he added another ev # n y « t more fatal , *—a habit of drinking . Ardent spirits he hoped would enable him to def y the fogs amid which ostentation kept him , and the ennui to vrhich a mindlas * companion consigned him .
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Sketch * of Domttiit Lift . 6 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 651, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/23/
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