UNIV OF CALIFORNIA THE TROUBLES OF A GOOD HUSBAND. IF fondness for travelling and a partiality to every new place, were a creditable characteristic, if freedom of mind, a bold and independent disposition, incapable of stooping to notice trifling embarrasments, if an eagerness for intelligence, an active temper, an indifferency of comfort and superfluities, with a hasty spirit and warm impatience, form the character of man, I feel a full conviction I was not deficient. My days B ་ commenced harmonious. For no calculations had I ever made of the necessaries and ills of life, until nature's demands pressed with relentless hands. Hence arose the desire to be empowered with an equality of purse to my station, and some degree of influence in the connection where I was placed and compelled to move, and my mind became fixed to what millions judge the charmless engagements of a settled life. In due time, my parents endowed my person with those monied and landed charms, which allure so powerfully, and even render an idiot respectable; the absence of which divested the inspired Apostles of honour, and rendered the Saviour of the world destitute of all respectability in the eyes of the selfish and carnal. My father never apologized for my youth; never admitted it was a day to sow the wild oats, for he had wisely calculated, what an extensive crop was likely to follow so early and consequently so long a seed-time. Though 1 never was seen in a theatre, and but once intoxicated, and I believe never swore an oath, by no means addicted to gambling, and never overset tables, nor broke windows, nor spoiled my best clothes, nor got into a watch-house, as fun up to the eyes," yet I was a man. These follies never could become deforming vices in me; for I was rather treated as a pitiful creature that kept out of every manly dust. Ever regarding the sage counsel, "Tis brave to meet the world; steadfast among I considered myself a Gentleman of some fortune, and the lady for whom I had some predilection, was in a fair way to be wealthy. Her father was a good liver (when compared with the bad,) frugal, and possessed of a good estate, and gave his children a genteel, if not a good education. Miss B- rose above her school mates, and dressed well, had a fine exterior, and the visits and notice of good company. She was addressed by a gentleman of no fortune, though of |