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Updated: May 5, 2025
In this our day, we have no rabbit-women no elopements no epic poems, finer than Milton's no contest about Harlequins and Polly Peachems. Jansen has won no more estates, and the Duchess of Queensberry has grown as tame as her neighbours. Whist has spread an universal opium over the whole nation; it makes courtiers and patriots sit down to the same pack of cards.
I charge upon Free Loveism that it has blighted innumerable homes, and that it has sent innumerable souls to ruin. Free Loveism is bestial; it is worse it is infernal! It has furnished this land with about one thousand divorces annually. In one county in the State of Indiana it furnished eleven divorces in one day before dinner. It has roused up elopements, North, South, East, and West.
Appeals to parents or guardians often ensue. If, by mediation of friends, a reconciliation takes place, it hardly ever holds: for why? Separate beds are often the consequence; perhaps elopements: if not, an unconquerable indifference, possibly aversion.
No power of words could portray the sad story of suffering and wrong she poured into my ears, of a niece beautiful, young, passionate, and willful and of her prayers and useless expostulations, and of a handsome, dissolute lover to whom the girl was passionately attached, and of elopements she had frustrated, alas! more than once. Ah! how shall I say it! the lover was not a marrying man."
Whatever you do, little one, do upright and honestly. And, above all, never deceive me. I have often heard of these romantic young school-girls falling in love with handsome strangers, and clandestine meetings following, ending in elopements; but, mark my words, no good comes of these deceptions forewarned is forearmed.
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