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claiming feparate maintenance, ever made 

 more abfolute facrifices to the moft im- 

 perious hufband, than did this lady, whofe 

 independence had been fecured, and of 

 whom nothing was demanded as a duty. 



Thus Mr. Day found, at laft, amid the 

 very clafs he dreaded, that of fafhionable 

 women, a heart whofe paffion for him 

 fupplied all the requifites of his high-toned 

 expectations. 



Some eight or ten years after his mar- 

 riage, the life of this fmgular being be- 

 came, in its meridian, a victim to one 

 of his uncommon fyftems. He thought 

 highly of the gratitude, generofity, and 

 fenfibility of horfes ; and that whenever 

 they were difobedient, unruly, or vicious, 

 it was owing to previous ill ufage from 

 men. He had reared, fed, and tamed a 

 favourite foal. When it was time it 

 Ihould become ferviceable, difdaining to 

 employ a horfebreaker, he would ufc it 

 E to 



