One who signs himself Reality,"" came upon these interesting conclusions on board an English mail boat to China in the "literary jottings" in the note. book of a lady, unmarried but in love.—Cleopatra, Marriage is very like the bringing together of two instruments of music. The first thing is to get thei keyed to the same pitch. Before a concert begins you hear the musicians striking the chords and keying their instruments until at length they all perfectly accord. Then they come out end play some rare piece of music without a discord or a jar in any of its parts.
No two lives, however thorough their former acquaintance may have been, however long they may moved together in society, or uiingled in the closer and more timate relations of a ripening iendship ever find themselves in harmony on their marriage day. It is only when that mysterious blending begins after marriage which no language can explain, that each finds so much in the other that was not discovered before. There are beauties and excellences that were never disclosed even to love's partial eye in all the days of fami. liar intimacy. There are peculiarities which were never seen to exist until they began to make themselves manifest within the veil of the matrimonial temple. There are incompatibilities that were never dreamed of, till they were revealed in the attrition of domestic life. There are faults that were neither
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