The world into which you are about stepping, is a false and evil world, and along all its highways and byways are scattered the sad remains of those who have perished ere half their years were numbered; and of the crowd that pressed onward, even to the farthest verge of natural life, how few escape the too common lot of wretchedness! The danger that most threatens you, in the fast-approaching future, is that which threatens every young maiden.
Your happiness or misery hangs nicely poised, and if you have not a wise discrimination, the scale may take a wrong preponderance.

Alas! if it should be so!" Mr.Allison paused a moment, and then said: "Shall I go on ?" "Oh, yes! Speak freely.

I am listening to your words as if they came from the lips of my own father." "An error in marriage is one of life's saddest errors, said Mr.
Allison.
"I believe that," was the maiden's calm remark; yet Mr.Allison saw that her eyes grew instantly brighter, and the hue of her cheeks warmer.
"In a _true_ marriage, there must be good moral qualities.

No pure-minded woman can love a man for an instant after she discovers that he is impure, selfish, and evil.

It matters not how high his rank, how brilliant his intellect, how attractive his exterior person, how perfect his accomplishments.