Excerpt from Chronicles of Gretna Green, Vol. 2 of 2 We wish the queen had bequeathed us some receipt for ensuring the permanency of wedded love: but alas for her, she was one of the last who could have transmitted such a bequest. She judged of every one by her own individual self, when she said, Married love never lasts; dat is not in de nature; but after all, if we look round the world, and scrutinize the opinions of men, we shall see that almost all their theses, dogmata, and theorems, are not founded so much on the wisdom of others as they are on their own abstract experience. Because ker wedded love did not last, she broadly declared that the wedded love of every person besides did not, and would not, last. Philosophers and moralists preach mutual forbear ance as one of the especial ensurers of happiness; and philosophers and moralists are right in thus preaching but it is so hard to resist being cross, and to stifle an ill-natured remark when things have gone wrong, and have put us out of sorts. And therefore, of course, on the other hand, it is particularly easy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.