I felt the need of her guiding counsels, and resolved to lay them up in my heart, and make them the rule and guide of my life.
"When a young girl marries a man whom she has been taught to believe perfection," continued Mrs.Linwood, "and after marriage discovers her golden idol to be an image of wood and clay, she may be permitted to sit down and weep a while over her vanished dreams.

But when she _knows_ the imperfections of him she loves; when she _knows_ they are of a nature to try, as with seven-fold heat, the strength and purity of her affection; when with this conviction she breathes her wedded vows, she has no right to upbraid him.

She has walked with open eyes into the furnace, and she must not shrink from the flames.

She must fold over her woman's heart the wings of an angel.

She must look up to God, and be silent." "When innocent of blame, surely she should defend herself from accusation," cried I.
"Certainly,--in the spirit of gentleness and Christian love.