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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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"Deeply
impressed
with
this
conviction,
should
it
be
the
lot
of
any
young
lady
in
whom
I
were
interested
to
form
a
real,
well-grounded
attachment
to
a
man
whose
circumstances
were
indifferent,
I
should
counsel
her,
provided
she
can
depend
on
the
character
and
exertions
of
the
object
so
beloved,
to
risk
the
event
of
an
engagement--to
trust
to
time
and
Providence,
and
to
marry
whenever
means
were
afforded,--convinced
as
I
am,
that
patience,
and
trust,
and
true
affection,
raise
the
character,
and
are
acceptable
in
the
eyes
of
our
Heavenly
Father.
But
in
such
a
case,
she
must
school
her
mind
to
meet
the
anxieties
which
attend
limited
means.
She
must
prepare
herself,
by
habits
of
diligence
and
economy,
to
become
a
poor
man's
wife.
She
must
learn
the
difficult
art
of
doing
well
upon
a
little.
She
must
not,
be
she
in
any
rank
of
life,
think
to
indulge
with
impunity
to
herself
in
every
refinement
and
luxury
when
she
is
single;
and,
upon
her
marriage,
imagine
that
she
can
attain
the
practice
of
economy
by
wishing
it.
Such
metamorphoses
are
out
of
reason--out
of
nature.
She
must
endeavor
before
the
bond
which
ties
her
to
poverty
is
framed,
to
understand
the
duties
of
housekeeping,
the
mysteries
of
needle-work.
She
must
lay
down
to
herself
rules
of
expenditure
suitable,
in
part,
to
her
future
condition
in
life.
Many
a
wife,
thus
commencing,
has
laid
the
foundations
of
future
fortune,
at
least
independence,
to
her
husband,
by
keeping
his
mind
at
peace,
during
his
progress
up
the
steep
ascent
to
professional,
or
clerical,
or
literary
fame.
Many
a
home
has
been
cheered
by
domestic
forbearance,
and
placid
submission
to
circumstances,
even
in
the
higher
classes,
during
the
life-time
of
a
father,
or
in
the
course
of
those
long
expectancies,
in
which
the
fortitude
and
principle
of
many
of
the
aristocracy
are
tried
and
proved.
But
the
self-denial,
the
cheerfulness,
the
good
management,
the
strict
principle,
are
formed
at
an
earlier
period
than
that
in
which
a
young
lady
gives
her
hand
to
him
whom
she
has
chosen,
in
spite
of
the
frown
of
fortune,
as
her
husband.
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