Sketches of American Character
Sketches of American Character
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( Would there not be equal danger of repen tance and repining, were the nuptial knot actu ally tied ? inquired Miss Ashton.
1 No, there would not or certainly not with persons of sense and reflection. They would then feel their interests the same, and they would feel that confidence in each other, which love only never imparted. Even the changes that time works on the fairest countenance, are scarcely perceptible to the husband who daily sees his wife exerting herself to make him and his childr...en happy. But the lover, after an ab sence of several years, beholds the alterations in his intended with deep regret, if not with mortification. And the more ardent and de- 112 AMERICAN SKETCHES.
voted he has been, the more perceptible is the change. His imagination has been investing his beloved with an increase of charms, while time has been stealing a tooth, or auburn lock, perhaps, and the bridegroom feels as if de frauded of the loveliness for which he had bar tered his heart.
4 But you forget, sir, said Miss Ashton, eagerly, l that the gentlemen now allow us some merit on the score of myid, and Miss Brooks 1 Is wonderfully improved, I grant ye, in terrupted Mr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
( Would there not be equal danger of repen tance and repining, were the nuptial knot actu ally tied ? inquired Miss Ashton.
1 No, there would not or certainly not with persons of sense and reflection. They would then feel their interests the same, and they would feel that confidence in each other, which love only never imparted. Even the changes that time works on the fairest countenance, are scarcely perceptible to the husband who daily sees his wife exerting herself to make him and his childr...en happy. But the lover, after an ab sence of several years, beholds the alterations in his intended with deep regret, if not with mortification. And the more ardent and de- 112 AMERICAN SKETCHES.
voted he has been, the more perceptible is the change. His imagination has been investing his beloved with an increase of charms, while time has been stealing a tooth, or auburn lock, perhaps, and the bridegroom feels as if de frauded of the loveliness for which he had bar tered his heart.
4 But you forget, sir, said Miss Ashton, eagerly, l that the gentlemen now allow us some merit on the score of myid, and Miss Brooks 1 Is wonderfully improved, I grant ye, in terrupted Mr.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale to read onlineMoreLess
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