Who would not be happy in such a palace as this ?" "It is not the splendor with which he has surrounded me," I answered, gravely, "but the love which is my earthly Providence, which constitutes my felicity.

You may tell these _busy idlers_, who are so interested in my domestic happiness, that I thank my husband for excluding me from companions so inferior to himself,--so incapable of appreciating the purity and elevation of his character." "Well, my precious soul, don't be angry with them.

You are a jewel of a wife, and I dare say he is a diamond of a husband; but you cannot stop peoples' tongues.

They _will_ talk when folks set themselves up as exclusives.

But let me tell you one thing, my pretty creature!--I am not going to be shut up in a cage while I am here, I assure you.