Excerpt from Tales of Wonder, of Humour, and of Sentiment, Vol. 1 of 3: Original and Translated A wife then he took'; - she was just fif teen years of age, since the younger she was, according to his reasoning, the more tractable she would be - she was pretty, since to prefer ugliness to beauty formed no part of his philosophy - mild and amiable in her-disposition as he concluded, since, having seen her only twice before their hands were joined, he had never known her out of temper. 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.