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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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CHAPTER
XXIII.
ON
A
YOUNG
LADY'S
CONDUCT
WHEN
CONTEMPLATING
MARRIAGE.
The
following
chapter,
met
with
in
a
recent
perusal
of
an
English
work
for
young
ladies,
strikes
me
as
so
admirable,
and
so
appropriate
in
this
place,
that
I
quote
the
chapter
entire:
"The
difficulties
and
trials
of
life
have
only
just
begun
when
a
young
lady
fancies
herself
to
be
of
sufficient
importance
to
become
the
theme
of
animadversion.
She
knows
little
of
the
true
importance
of
self-control,
until
she
experiences
the
first
indications
of
preference
shown
her
by
the
other
sex.
"Such
indications
are
often
manifested,
whilst
she
to
whom
they
are
directed,
is
wholly
unprepared
to
analyze
her
own
feelings,
before
her
opinions
upon
what
she
has
seen
are
by
any
means
developed;
before
she
has
even
considered
adequately,
on
what
her
happiness
depends;
before
she
has
discernment
to
reject
what
is
frivolous,
or
wisdom
to
prefer
what
is
good.
This
is
more
especially
the
case
in
the
highest
and
lowest
classes,
in
which,
by
a
strange
analogy,
they
either
rush
into
the
marriage
state
whilst
children,
or
wait
until
the
bloom
and
hopes
of
youth
have
forever
passed
away,
in
order
to
form
interested
matches.
The
matured
period
of
five-and-twenty
to
thirty,
is
passed
by
the
lower
classes
in
the
single
state
in
labor
to
gain
subsistence;
after
thirty,
or
even
forty,
we
often
find
them
marrying.
But
the
majority
have
sealed
their
own
fate
before
the
age
of
twenty.
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