You will pine after the liberty you once enjoyed.

By George! Captain Barry,' he added, with a sigh, 'the thing that I regret most in life--perhaps it is because I am old, blase, and dying--is, that I never had a virtuous attachment.' 'Ha! ha! a milkmaid's daughter!' said I, laughing at the absurdity.
'Well, why not a milkmaid's daughter?
My good fellow, I WAS in love in youth, as most gentlemen are, with my tutor's daughter, Helena, a bouncing girl; of course older than myself' (this made me remember my own little love-passages with Nora Brady in the days of my early life), 'and do you know, sir, I heartily regret I didn't marry her?
There's nothing like having a virtuous drudge at home, sir; depend upon that.

It gives a zest to one's enjoyments in the world, take my word for it.

No man of sense need restrict himself, or deny himself a single amusement for his wife's sake: on the contrary, if he select the animal properly, he will choose such a one as shall be no bar to his pleasure, but a comfort in his hours of annoyance.

For instance, I have got the gout: who tends me?
A hired valet, who robs me whenever he has the power.