Page:The history of Tom Jones (1749 Volume 1).pdf/210

 Aritotle himelf. He looked on a Woman as on an Animal of dometic Ue, of omewhat higher Conideration than a Cat, ince her Offices were of rather more Importance; but the Difference between thee two, was in his Etimation o mall, that in his Marriage contracted with Mr. Allworthy’s Lands and Tenements, it would have been pretty equal which of them he had taken into the Bargain. And yet o tender was his Pride, that it felt the Contempt which his Wife now began to expres towards him; and this, added to the Surfeit he had before taken of her Love, created in him a Degree of Digut and Abhorrence, perhaps hardly to be exceeded.

One Situation only of the married State is excluded from Pleaure; and that is, a State of indifference; but as many of my Readers, I hope, know what an exquiite Delight there is in conveying Pleaure to a beloved Object, o fome ew, I am afraid, may have experienced the Satisfaction of tormenting one we hate. It is, I apprehend, to come at this latter Pleaure, that we ee both Sexes often give up that Eae in Marriage, which they might otherwie poes, tho’ their Mate was never o diagreeable to them. Hence the Wife often puts on