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 will 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 lender of disobliging, and so studious of obliging eacli other, 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, and 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 actually married, Charlotte!

Yes, Lady L But yesterday married, you know. Can there be a greater difference between any two men in the world, than there often is between the same man, a lover, and a husband? And now, my generous advisers, be pleased to continue silent. You cannot answer me fairly. And besides, wot ye not the indelicacy of an early present, which you are not vblied to make?

We were both silent, each expecting the other to answer the strange creature.

She laughed at us both. Soft souls, and tender! said she, let me tell you, that there is more indeli-cacy in delicacy, than you very delicate people are aware of.

You, Charlotte, said Lady L. have odder notions than any-body else. Had you been a man, you would have been a sad rake

A rake perhaps I might have been! but not a sad one, Lady. L.

Lady G. can’t help being witty, said I: it is sometimes her misfortune, sometimes ours, that she cannot: however, I highly approve of the example set by Lord L. and followed by Lady L.