ABSTRACT
No society is comparable to that of an accomplished wife: at least such I found it in the engagement into which I thus entered in my early period of man’s estate. Our topics of conversation were inexhaustible; for we were wholly without reserve, and conversed with each other, even as a man might be supposed to commune with his own heart. We told all that we knew; for neither of us had any thing that we desired to possess exclusively. Every portion of information of which either came into possession, we were forward to impart. Every subtle distinction of sentiment, every nice a division of meaning, every use of the words / and phrases of our native tongue that would enable us to give appropriate language and luminous expression to what before existed in the mind undeveloped and only in the ruder elements of thought, we were eager to add to the common stock, and make a property for both.
