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38 Does he? hatily] But believe me, the Baron will not peruade you—No, I am ure he will not.

I know that.

He wihes that I hould acertain whether you have an inclination——

For the Count, or for matrimony do you mean?

For matrimony.

All things that I don’t know, and don’t undertand, are quite indifferent to me.

For that very reaon I am ent to you to explain the good and the bad of which matrimony is compoed.

Then I beg firt to be acquainted with the good.

When two ympathetic hearts meet in the marriage tate, matrimony may be called a happy life. When uch a wedded pair find thorns in their path, each will be eager, for the fake of the other, to tear them from the root. Where they have to mount hills, or wind a labyrinth, the mot experienced will lead the way, and be a guide to his companion. Patience and love will accompany them in their journey, while melancholy and dicord they leave far behind.—Hand in hand they pas on from morning till evening, through their ummer’s day, till the night of age draws on, and the leep of death over-