FALLING IN LOVE.
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A man falls in love just as he falls down
stairs. 1t is an neutrality-suspicious. and ve-
ry probably misfortune; something which
he neither intended, nor foresaw, nor appre-
headed. But when he runs in love it is as
he runs in debt; it is done knowingly and
intentionally; and very often rashly and
foolishly, even ifnot ridiculously, miserably
and ruinously.


Marriages that urc made up at watering
places, are mostly of this running sort; and
there may be reason to think that thov are
even less likely to lead to- will not say
happiness, but to very humble degree of
contentment, than those which arc plain
business of bargain and sale; for in these
latter certain degree of prudence enters
on both sides. But there is distinction to
be made here; the Nan who is married for
mere worldly motives, without spark oi
affection on the woman's part, may never
.heless get, in every worldly sense of the
word, good wife; and while English women
continue to be what, thank Heaven they
are, he is likely to do SO; but when awoman
is married for the sake of her fortune, the
case IS altered, and the chances are hVe
hundred to one, that she marries villain,
or at least a scoundrel.


Falling in love, and running in love, are
both, as every body knows, common enoughi
and yet less so, than what | shall call catch
ing love. Where the love itself is impru-
dent, that is to say where there is some just
prudential cause or impediment why the
two parties should not be joined togetger in
holy matrimony, there is generally some de-
gree of culpable imprudence in catching it,
because the danger is always to be appre-
hended, and may in most cases be avoided
But some times the circumstances may be
such as to leave no room for censure, even
when there may be most cause for compass
sion.