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262 THE HONEYMOON. 
THE HONEYMOON. 
A SKETCH FROM LIFE. 
If we were constantly to bear in mind, in our 
passage through life, that " 'tis trifles make the 
sum of human things," how much of the misery 
into which many of us now heedlessly plunge 
might be entirely avoided! Unhappily, there are 
but few in the married state who, in their remi- 
niscences, are enabled to look back upon the un- 
broken chain of bliss so beautifully depicted in 
the lines above quoted ; and the only reason, that 
we can imagine, why it is not oftener realized, is 
next to the natural perversity of our race 
the want of proper attention to the thousand little 
occurrences and unpleasant passages, confessedly 
trifling in themselves, but which, in the aggregate, 
" make up in number what they want in weight." 
It is not, however, our intention, even were we 
equal to the task, to digress into a dissertation 
upon the various ills which afflict humanity, or 
the probable causes which produce them ; but 
merely to present the reader with a brief sketch, 
which will perhaps serve, in some respect, to illus- 
trate, as well the ease with which the seeds of 
unhappiness may be incautiously strewn in the 
hearts of those who love us, as also what-may be 
considered the infant or incipient state of that 
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