revenge.
This was his argument. He had married a woman of spirit, who had injured him in the strongest degree, and, for this indignity, he was determined to take vengeance on her whole sex; idly forgetting that this was revenging himself on a whole hive, for the sting of a single bee. Besides, he himself was to blame: the fault lay in his own want of discernment. Had he fairly examined the ground of the business, he would have plainly seen that it originated with Viney, who had taught him nothing but what disgraced his birth, and deprived him of the use of that valuable goodness of heart which he really possessed, and which, had he fallen into proper hands, might have induced him to have dispensed the gifts of fortune nobly instead of licentiously.
To put this worthy project in execution, Lord Hazard resolved once more to try the married state, resolutely vowing to conduct himself in so authoritative

a manner to his second wife, that she should not dare even to think without his previous permission. He had scarcely come to this resolution, but his uneasiness on his late disgrace vanished. He looked round for a wife with the greatest eagerness, till at length, with Viney's assistance, who was still consulted, he thought he had found one to his wish.
But how was he astonished when he plainly saw it would be impossible to avail himself of any one of those prudent determinations, those ingenious precautions he had been so long and so industriously arming himself with. He had now such a wife that to controul her was impossible; to advise her, useless!
If my readers think he was again caught, after so much wary and cautious resolution, after such anticipation of success, I hope it will be confessed he deserved it.
Certainly he was disappointed, but in that satisfactory way that a man would be at finding a lawyer who, taking a brief, should refuse a fee. Lady Hazard could not be controuled, advised, or entreated; for she had so high a sense of her duty, such equanimity of temper, and such sweetness of

manners, that she anticipated her lord's very wishes. He had received her from her father, a wealthy country neighbour, who wanted to aggrandize his family. The young lady, who had all her life made it her study to please her father, found it no irksome task to watch and comply with the tempers of her husband:—so true it is that a dutiful daughter has gone a great way towards becoming a good wife.
If ever an extraordinary event new moulded a