one of its best features. If to be able to be silent is one of a husband's chief virtues, then the test, which puts him in opposition to that being, towards whom he constantly shows the greatest weakness, is the hardest of all tests and therefore virtue in its most condensed and comprehensive form. The wife, therefore, should not only rejoice to see him capable of withstanding such a test, but should take occasion out of it to vie with him in virtue, by taming the inborn curiosity which she inherits from mother Eve.

If moreover the subject of the secret be nothing more important than an apron, then every chance is given to virtue on both sides, without disturbing the confidence of marriage, which ought to be complete.

CCCLI.

The Prince Consort to the Crown Princess of Prussia.

Buckingham Palace: June 22, 1859.

Royal personages, to whom services are being constantly rendered, often forget, that these involve all sorts of sacrifices to the persons who render them, which-if those to whom they are rendered would only keep their eyes open-might be obviated and spared. But it is just the most faithful servants and the worthiest friends who are most silent about their own affairs, and who have therefore to be thoroughly probed before we get at the truth.

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