since they were married, which she might not have heard as well from her own Woman. He however takes great care to keep up the saucy ill-natur'd Authority of a Husband. Whatever
Flavilla
happens to assert,
Tom
immediately contradicts with an Oath, by way of Preface, and,
My Dear, I must tell you, you talk most confoundedly silly. Flavilla
had a Heart naturally as well dispos'd for all the Tenderness of Love as that of
Lætitia
; but as Love seldom continues long after Esteem, it is difficult to determine, at present, whether the unhappy
Flavilla