That is, if love has wings, is it not to flutter about with?  The wit, argument, and manner, all together, silenced me.  She, after I left France, married a very worthy man, has had a large family, and has been, and is, a most excellent wife and mother.  But that which does sometimes well in France, does not do here at all.  Our manners are more grave:  steadiness is the rule, and levity the exception.  Love may voltige in France; but, in England, it cannot, with safety to the lover:  and it is a truth which, I believe, no man of attentive observation will deny, that, as, in general, English wives are more warm in their conjugal attachments than those of France, so, with regard to individuals, that those English women who are the most light in their manners, and who are the least constant in their attachments, have the smallest portion of that warmth, that indescribable passion which God has given to human beings as the great counterbalance to all the sorrows and sufferings of life.

101.  INDUSTRY.  By industry, I do not mean merely laboriousness, merely labour or activity of body, for purposes of gain or of saving; for there may be industry amongst those who have more money than they know well what to do with:  and there may be lazy ladies, as well as lazy farmers’ and tradesmen’s wives.  There is no state of life in which industry in the wife is not necessary to the happiness and prosperity of the family, at the head of the household affairs of which she is placed.  If she be lazy, there will be lazy servants, and, which is a great deal worse, children habitually lazy:  every thing, however necessary to be done, will be put off to the last moment:  then it will be done badly, and, in many cases, not at all:  the dinner will be too late; the journey or the visit will be tardy; inconveniencies of all sorts will be continually arising:  there will always be a heavy arrear of things unperformed; and this, even amongst the most wealthy of all, is a great curse; for, if they have no business imposed upon them by necessity, they make business for themselves; life would be unbearable without it:  and therefore a lazy woman must always be a curse, be her rank or station what it may.

102.  But, who is to tell whether a girl will make an industrious woman?  How is the purblind lover especially, to be able to ascertain whether she, whose smiles and dimples and bewitching lips have half bereft him of his senses; how is he to be able to judge, from any thing that he can see, whether the beloved object will be industrious or lazy?  Why, it is very difficult:  it is a matter that reason has very little to do with; but there are, nevertheless, certain outward and visible signs, from which a man, not wholly deprived of the use of his reason, may form a pretty accurate judgment as to this matter.  It was a story in Philadelphia,