As  a  bachelor,  I  put  up  with  such  annoyances ;  if  they  spoilt
one's  dinner,  one  dined  at  one's  club  for  the  next  week,  and  so
gave  the  cook  a  hint,  which  rendered  her  more  careful ;  but  I
own,  when  I  married,  I  did  hope  that  these  things  might  be
remedied ;  that  while  I  was  out,  working  hard  from  breakfast
till  dinner-time  to  provide  funds  for  all  these  expenses,  the  eye
of  a  mistress  might  have  been  applied  to  an  occasional  inspec-
tion of  her  household  ;  and  that  her  husband's  comfort  would
have  been  a  fitter  study  for  an  amiable  and  domestic  character
than  the  immoral  and  pernicious  writings  of  German  and
French  novelists.     Take  that  horrible  joint  up  to  your  mistress.
