seven o'clock P.M.
Bernardin de St.-Pierre has related the story of a young girl who refused a suitor because he would never have flowers or domestic animals in his house . Perhaps the sentence was severe , but not without reason . We may presume that a man insensible to beauty and to humble affection must be ill prepared to feel the enjoyments of a happy marriage . 14th , seven o'clock P.M. -- This morning , as I was opening my journal to write , I had a visit from our old cashier . His sight is not so good as it was , his hand begins to shake , and the work he was able to do formerly is now becoming somewhat laborious to him . I had undertaken to write out some of his papers , and he came for those I had finished . We conversed a long time by the stove , while he was drinking a cup of coffee which I made him take .