The things we do!

Bulders the Vicar, Mr. Vidler the
apothecary, Mr. Puff the baker--of Tom Potts, the jolly reporter of the
Newcome Independent, and ------ Batters, Esq., the proprietor of that
journal--persons with whom our friends have had already, or will be found
presently to have, some connexion. And it is from these that we shall
arrive at some particulars regarding the Newcome family, which will show
us that they have a skeleton or two in their closets, as well as their
neighbours.
Now, how will you have the story? Worthy mammas of families--if you do
not like to have your daughters told that bad husbands will make bad
wives; that marriages begun in indifference make homes unhappy; that men
whom girls are brought to swear to love and honour are sometimes false,
selfish, and cruel; and that women forget the oaths which they have been
made to swear--if you will not hear of this, ladies, close the book, and
send for some other. Banish the newspaper out of your houses, and shut
your eyes to the truth, the awful truth, of life and sin.


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