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Eveline's parents and her aunt Lady Gower flattered themselves that, now she was fairly married, the love of a wife would naturally waken to a man who had no vices and few faults that they could see—who was disposed to be indulgent to her and proud of her. But people want a great deal of love or a great deal of prudence to begin matrimony upon, and poor Eveline had neither. The more closely she was brought to her husband, the more she was thrown upon his society alone, the less she found she liked him. If they had taken up house-keeping, and received and returned their wedding visits from the first day of their marriage, they might have done better; but that long honeymoon in Scotland was to both of them rather tiresome, and to Lady Eveline almost unendurable. His conversation wearied his wife, his vanity made