Good soul!--And, pray, don't you minute down, too, the use to which you
put the money you take out?
Indeed I often do: always, indeed, when I take out more than five guineas
at one time: I found my lord did so: and I followed the example of my own
accord.
Happy pair! said I.--O Lady G----, what a charming example is this!--I
hope you'll follow it.
Thank you, Harriet, for your advice. Why, I can't but say, that this is
one pretty way of coaxing each other into frugality: but don't you think,
that where an honest pair are so tender of disobliging, and so studious
of obliging each other, that they seem to confess that the matrimonial
good understanding hangs by very slender threads?
And do not the tenderest friendships, said I, hang by as slender? Can
delicate minds be united to each other but by delicate observances?
Why thou art a good soul, too, Harriet!--And so you would both have me
make a present to Lord G---- of my thousand pounds before we have chosen
our private drawer; before he has got two keys made to it?
Let him know, Charlotte, what Lord L---- and I do, if you think the
example worth following--And then--
Ay, and then give him my thousand pounds for a beginning, Lady L----?
But see you not that this proposal should come from him, not from me?--
And should we not let each other see a little of each other's merits
first?
See, first, the merits of the man you have married, Charlotte!
Yes, Lady L----.
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