ments. Gowns, presents, and wedding pageants had no part in it, had no place.
The following were my reflections[1]:
"The principal and leading features of my future life are going to be:
"Marriage with Richard.
"My parents' blessing and pardon.
"A man-child.
"An appointment, money earned by literature and publishing.
"A little society.
"Doing a great deal of good.
"Much travelling.
"I have always divided marriage into three classes—Love, Ambition, and Life. By Life I mean a particular style of life and second self that a peculiar disposition and strong character require to make life happy, and without which possibly neither Love alone nor Ambition alone would satisfy it. And I love a man in whom I can unite all three, Love, Life, and Ambition, of my own choice. Some understand Ambition as Title, Wealth, Estates; I understand it as Fame, Name, Power. I have undertaken a very peculiar man; I have asked a difficult mission of God, and that is to give me that man's body and soul. It is a grand mission; and after ten years and a half of prayer God has given it to me. Now we must lead a good, useful, active, noble life, and be each other's salvation; and if we have children, bring them up in the fear of God. The first thing to be done is to obtain my parents'
- ↑ From her devotional book Laméd.
