In her beloved mother's papers, my friend Bridget finds some treasures as this french account of the station of matrimony in England made in the year 1816
Wives eloped : 1 132
Husband run away : 2 343
Legally divirced : 4 176
Living in open hostility : 17 345
Secretly discontent : 13 279
Mutually indifferent : 58 406
Passing for happy : 3 175
Hardly happy : 127
Truly Happy : 13
Thus the balance is 13 happy couples in 99 967 , that is 1 happy couple in 7 609 marriages
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