Capitolo 16
superficial parts of the life that the solid and substantial benedictions
of him. A girl that has been trained above in some kind of conversation
it is in danger of every coat embroidered that it enters his/her way. A
pair of fringed gloves can be its downfall. In a word, lace and
ribands, silver and gold galloons with the likes the bright gewgaws,
it is so a lot of attractions to women of weak chins or low educations, and,
when it artificially exposed, it is able to recover down the airiest
small branch from the wildest of his/her flights and it errs.
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and
noise; it rises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one
same, and, in the next one, from the friendship and conversation of a
few they select companions; it loves shade and the loneliness, and naturally
groves of places of meeting and fountains, fields and lawns; in short, it feels
what wants inside him, and it doesn't receive sum from
crowds of witnesses and spectators. On the contrary one, false
happiness loves to be in a crowd, and to draw the eyes of the world
on her. You don't receive satisfaction from the applauses
what she is given, but from the admiration she raises in
others. You bloom in courts and buildings, theaters and
reunions, and it doesn't have existence but when at she is looked on.
Aurelia, although a woman of great quality, delights in the reserve of
a life of country, and it passes away a great part of his/her time in her really
walks and gardens. His/her husband that is his/her friend of breast and
you accompany in his/her loneliness, you/he/she has been since then in love of her him
the wiseacre. Them double they abound with the good sense, you complete the virtue, and
a mutual respect; and it is a perpetual fun to each other.
Their family is so regular an economy under, in his/her times of
the devotion and meal, job and diversion that it seems a
small republic inside him. They often goes to society that
they can return with the greatest delight to each other; and
sometimes long live in the city, not to so properly enjoy him/it as to grow tired