The things we do!

And so she showed it to him.
Have you taken your children to the National Gallery in London, and shown
them the "Marriage a la Mode?" Was the artist exceeding the privilege of
his calling in painting the catastrophe in which those guilty people all
suffer? If this fable were not true, if many and many of your young men
of pleasure had not acted it, and rued the moral, I would tear the page.
You know that in our Nursery Tales there is commonly a good fairy to
counsel, and a bad one to mislead the young prince. You perhaps feel that
in your own life there is a Good Principle imploring you to come into its
kind bosom, and a Bad Passion which tempts you into its arms. Be of easy
minds good-natured people! Let us disdain surprises and coups-de-theatre
for once; and tell those good souls who are interested about him, that
there is a Good Spirit coming to the rescue of our young Lord Kew.
Surrounded by her court and royal attendants, La Reine Marie used
graciously to attend the play-table, where luck occasionally declared
itself for and against her Majesty.


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