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day, to live there together as long as love 
may preferve harmony between them : for, 
as I have faid, if any difference arifes in the 
family which cannot be reconciled but by a 
reparation, it foon takes place. They quit 
one another; and each feeking a happier fitu- 
ation elfewhere, is at liberty to marry again. 
EflabHflied order requires that the commoa 
effects fliould be divided in an amicable man- 
ner : but fhould it happen that the hufband, 
in quality of mailer, pretends to retain the 
whole, the wife on that account is never 
deftitute of protciflors and fupport ; the fa- 
mily ftand up in her defence, and fometimes 
the whole horde. Much difputing then en- 
fues ; the confequence is that they come to 
blows, and the ftronger party give laws to 
the other. 
The mother takes with her the young 
children, efpecially if they be daughters ; 
the boys, if they be grown up, follow the 
father, and are always on his fide, 
Thefe misfortunes, it mufl be confrlTed, 
are very rare ; but what is no lefs worthy of 
remark, is, that in fuch cafes, as well as in 
their other quarrels, there is no law, and no 
eftablifhed cuftom, by whi<:h good order can 
be 
