The youthful infatuation of nineteen would naturally blind him to everything but her beauty and good nature; but the four succeeding years—years which if rationally spent give such improvement to the understanding—must have opened his eyes to her defects of education; while the same period of time, spent on her side in inferior society and more frivolous pursuits, had perhaps robbed her of that simplicity which might once have given an interesting character to her beauty.
