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Excerpt from A Warning to Wives, or the Platonic Lover, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel
Sir Noah and Lady Fathom were a very happy couple. She was a pretty, lively, sparkling creature of nineteen; and though at this early age she had been two years a wife, and one a mother, there was still a good deal of the child about her. She was one of those beings who would always be young at heart; but though her warm affections, her sweet credulity, her playful tenderness, were almost child-like, her quick per ception, her ready wit, her faith and her devotion, proved her to be a true woman.
Ada, Lady Fathom had one boy - beautiful in all eyes, but perfect in hers! This cherub child had awakened all the deepest and warmest emo tions of her heart, for Ada at seventeen had not chosen for herself - she had married to please her parents, not herself. And yet, while many love matches had ended in mutual dislike, this mariage de convenances had proved so calmly and con sistently happy, that when match-making mammas wanted to talk obstinate daughters into unions, which seemed to promise little to young hearts, they always wound tip with Look at Sir Noah and Lady Fathom, what a happy match I Ahd is it so - a moment - and we shall see!
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