Chapter 7

WOMEN AND MARRIAGE.

I. To a young gentleman of intellectual tastes, who, without having as yet any particular lady in view, had expressed, in a general way, his determination to get married 285

II. To a young gentleman who contemplated marriage 291

III. To the same 299

IV. To the same 306

V. To the same 312

VI. To a solitary student 322

VII. To a lady of high culture who found it difficult to associate with persons of her own sex 325

VIII. To a lady of high culture 330

IX. To a young man of the middle class, well educated, who complained that it was difficult for him to live agreeably with his mother, a person of somewhat authoritative disposition, but uneducated 333