A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.