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Various. The Wedding Guest: A Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom
The Wedding Guest: A Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom
Table of Contents
THE WEDDING GUEST
THE EVENING BEFORE MARRIAGE
THE WIFE
MARRIAGE
THE BRIDE'S SISTER
THE YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER
TO AN ABSENT WIFE
THE WORD OF PRAISE
LETTERS TO A YOUNG WIFE
FROM A MARRIED LADY. LETTER I. MY DEAR LIZZIE,
LETTER II
MY DEAR LIZZIE,
LETTER III
MY DEAR LIZZIE,
LETTER IV
THE WIFE
BE GENTLE WITH THY WIFE
A TRUE TALE OF LIFE
MAN AND WOMAN
THE FAIRY WIFE
AN APOLOGUE
A BRIEF HISTORY, IN THREE PARTS, WITH A SEQUEL
PART I.—LOVE
PART II.—COURTSHIP
THE SEQUEL.—"IF."
ELMA'S MISSION
HORACE."
LIVING LIKE A LADY
LADY LUCY'S SECRET
A WORD FOR WIVES
NO JEWELLED BEAUTY
THE FIRST MARRIAGE IN THE FAMILY
ONLY A FEW WORDS
THE TWO HOMES
LOVE'S FAIRY RING
FANNIE'S BRIDAL
PART I
PART II
PART III
PART IV
THE LOVER AND THE HUSBAND
NELLIE
FREDERICK ORTON."
ELLEN."
A HOME IN THE HEART
A LEAF FROM A FAMILY JOURNAL
TRIFLES
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS
A SYLVAN MORALITY; OR, A WORD TO WIVES
PASSAGES FROM A YOUNG WIFE'S DIARY
HINTS AND HELPS FOR MARRIED PARTNERS
THREE WAYS OF MANAGING A WIFE
FOSTER'S ESSAYS
THE END
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Published by Good Press, 2019
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Notwithstanding these miserable unions, we must consider marriage divine in its origin, and alone calculated to make life blessed. Who can imagine a more blissful state of existence than two united by the law of God and love, mutually sustaining each other in the jostlings of life; together weathering its storms, or basking beneath its clear skies; hand in hand, lovingly, truthfully, they pass onward. This is marriage as God instituted it, as it ever should be, as Moore beautifully says—
"There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told,
