Cultivation bade the sterile earth to pay out a bounty of grain, bade the biting thorns to die.
Cultivation also improves the bitterness of fruit, and the split tree gains adopted richness.
That which is cultivated gives pleasure. But your mothers gave birth to tender girls. Yet it is not a fault, if you are anxious to please, since this age of ours has men who love elegance. Your husbands are refined in feminine principles, and scarcely does a wife have to add to their refinement. Athos will find them smart.