The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

248 THE YOUNG lady's COUNSELLOR.
married if possible, with a parent's smile. Sweet is
a parent's kiss, when it approvingly touches the lips
of a daughter in the bridal hour. On the contrary,
that bridal day is dark which has its sun obscured
by the shadow of a parent's frown.
Having a parent's approval, and a kindred spirit
for a suitor, you still need to cultivate caution in the
intimacies of courtship. While you avoid all coquettishness
of 'spirit, you must also guard against
too much freedom. Be frank, simple, trustful hi
your intercourse, but avoid all boldness on
your own
part, and shrink from the least approach to impropriety
on his. Do not permit your lover to remain
in your company later than ten o'clock in the evening
; it ought to make a young lady blush even to
listen to a proposal to sit up all, or nearly all, night,
— an ancient practice, which, I am pleased to know,
is becoming unfashionable. I condemn it, because
it is wrong, and disgraces the parties in their own
estimation, as well as in the opinion of all virtuous
persons. Your conversation ought also to be seatoned
with common sense. All mere soft, silly talk