Tales of the Castle Or Stories of Instruction And Delight Being Les Veilles
Tales of the Castle Or Stories of Instruction And Delight Being Les Veilles
Stphanie Flicit Genlis
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This, therefore, is abfolutely contrary to our mianners : nor does the ftory of Auberive depi£l them better. We find eafy hufbands in the world who know their difgracc, yet feem not to regard it ; but there is no exanipie to be found, like what the Autlior of the Mioral Tales calls the arrangement of the Marquis of Auberive with his lady, or of hufband and wife confiding their mutual infide- lities to each other, ending their jealous quarrels by laughing at their folly, ratifying peace over a f...upper, and coming to a right underf. Und'ing in prefence of the millrefs and gallant. Such a pic- ture 144 THE TALES OF THE CASTLE. ture is as chimerical as it is revolting ; the world may be brought to pardon thofe who go aflray, but never thofe who debafe themfelves ; deliberate inde- cency, and total negleiSl of propriety, is a wrong that never can be repaired. But let us purfue the condu6l of the ftory. Verglan, during a long converfation, continues to maintain that Auberive has acted very wifely ; fays that, formerly, a hufband became the ridiculous object of public contempt at madam's firft falfe ftep ; approves the prefent manners, makes an eu- lo2;ium on perjury and adultery, and concludes by faying, it is thefe things that make him defirous of being married.
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