The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

202 THE YOUNG LADY's COUNSELLOR.
within herself, every beauty of the scrul, that she
might gratify the insatiate demands of
her ambition.
And may not these
things be done by young ladies
who shiver at the bare recital of the mode through
which she displayed the workings of her unfilial and
unsisterly heart ? What shall be said of thai
daughter who treats a mother with contempt, and a
father with disregard ? What of her, who idly
wastes her time, and leaves an aged or a feeble
mother to toil unaided in domestic duties ? What of
her, whose insufTerable temper destroys the happiness
of the family circle, who tyrannizes over her
brothers and sisters, whose wastefulness and vanity
exhaust a father's means, and burden
him with care
that crushes his soul ?
Or of her, who, despising all
parental
counsel and authority, wilfully and blindly
rushes into forbidden and dangerous society, thereby
inflicting pangs more painful than the dagger's
btroke upon the anguished spirits of her father and
mother ? Are such young ladies wholly free from
the sin of Tullia ? Nay ! She violated filial and sisterly
ties ; they do the same. Thus far they resem-