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17 incumbent on me: Perhaps you will laugh at the rd duty and ſay thit it importe fomething like erv but nothing is more falſe for even the of a fervant is as pleaſant as any other's when obeys from motives of love inſtead of ſtar For own part, my dear, I can not ſay that I an un- ling to be obedient and yet I am not command- to be by my huſband. You have often ſpok- contemptuouſly of the marriage ſtate, and I be- e your reasons were that moſt of thoſe whom you were unhappy: that this is an erroneous way udging It was deſigned by the almighty that n and women ſhould live together in a ſtate of ety, that they ſhould become mutual helps to h other: and if they are bleſſed with children, aſſiſt each other in living them a virtuous edu- on. Let me therefore beg that my dear couſin no longer deſpiſe that ſtate for which ſhe was d ned and which is calculated to make her hap- But then, my dear there is two ſorts of men a muſt ſtudiouſly avoid I mean Miſers and Rakes. firſt will take every opportunity of abridging r neceſſary expence, and the ſecond will leave nothing for a ſu ſiſtence. The firſt, by his pe- riouſneſs, will cauſe you to ſuffer from imagina- wants: the ſecond, by his pro ng lity, will make a real beggar. But your own good ſenſe will nt out the propriety of what have mentioned. t me beg that you will come and ſpend a few cks with us; and if you have any taſte for rural domeſtic life, I do nt not but you will be aſed.

I am, your affectionate Couſin.