The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-08-31 00:00:00

" I BORRER A BARRER, "
• PAWL/ ET • LONDON " COsTID"

ID "The Seven Curses of Lontion," Mr. James
Greenwood. the fani.us " Amat...ur Centel." touchy.
OD the question of matrimony, which he does not con•
eider the panacea for m iral misehbfa among London's
Lower orders, • bleb oertein estim.ble City momonaries
believe it to be. His reamn is this :—The pairs are
assorted, not so much by choice as by accident; they
live together so long no convenience suite; their yoke
is easy, and, being sepyrable at any chosen moment, the
chain does not gall ; but once let the union be irrevoc-
able, and the free and easy nature of the "easter" longs
to shake it off. Westiug Mr Greenwood's peculiar
experienoee, we will not presume to question the
correctness of his views, so we quote one of his
authorities. who, overcome by his feelings, illustrated
his painful position by this parable :

" But what, probably. i 4 the upshot of the good minion's
endeavours and triumph? In • ,ery littk time the gilt with
which the honest ed,loof gh owed the chain that wa• to bind the
man Irrevocably to marriage and morality Weafll off. The sweat
of his been will not keep it bright :It nods IL Ile feels, In
his not rulgar though expressive language, that he Ann been
" bustled" Into • bad bargain. "It. like this 'ere," • matri-
-1110111•1 victim Of thlcla,. 1,11(V C. 11.11.41 to in. ; " I don't my
m she isn't as good es es et, but I'm lobos-oil if she's all that
better as I was kidded to believe id,e would be." " But if she
I. as good as ever, she is good enough." "Ye,. but you haven't
quite got the bearing "(what I mean. Sir, and I Saint got It in
me to put It in the words like you we ukl. flood enough before
1„.1 good enough now, 'OM it hain't hoptionaL vans see?
No, you don't. Well, lothere. Wm.: I torte,• Inner. Well,
it's good enough, and • coin... Mott ,In for Insist/snit my stock
,in it. It goes issity ease, and I pays eights...pent:ea week for
It, and I'm midis/led. Well. I goes on all right, and without
grumbling. till some chap he se* to ale, • What call hav, you
to boilers barter when you r• 11 have one of your nem? You
slab want•harrer. don't you know, why nit make this one
lour ...fir I can't spare the money,' I sea 1/1,,' he
'l'll find the money and the loner. yourn, If to be a.
you pnimise all,l ,ow to lake up with no other Wier, but
stick to this .111.3 0., Wag MOI you both !hall Weil, as afore.
mld, it's • tidy, useful tarter, Slid I agruty. Ibit 'out 0i Ito
mine. don% )011 I ain't quite I, carele.. alt ut It. I
merhsuls it. In • manner of speaking, and l'n, more keerfut In
trying the lelaticc .4 it ill hand 0 hen the load's on It. Well.
maybe I find what liner, before tniubled myself h, look Sr.
Thre's • ...few out litre and • bolt wanted there. Ilere
*oak, anti there it's ugly. I dwells In. It in my mind COMilalllt.
I've never got that there horror out of my head, and Oar. I
make too now), of the weak plot. of It. I gets to mistrust it.
' all middling right, Just now, obi wtenan—old inner. I
mean,' I ta.w to myself, "hot you'll be playing me • trick one
day. I'm afraid.' Weil. I lei on being amid, which I shouldn't
be if I was only • borrower." "11.1 you should not forget
that the harrow, to adopt your own ungallant Ilium of speech,
I. not 100 wittabla for these dreads and suspicions of yours: It
.111 lad you as long and a. well as though )0u had continued•
borrower; ion will admit that, at itast !" " I don't know.
lad, yes! Thtt's the beggaring par• of it. Ah, well! p mpe
right, but I'm blest 11l can stand being haunted like I
ant now.