text:  Again a married woman is presented to us--for the sympathy which with us attends a young couple to the church-door only begins in France after they have left it: as a child she has been betrothed to a person of her own rank--at five or six incurable idiocy takes possession of her proposed husband--but when she is eighteen the marriage takes place--the husband is a mere child still; for his intellect has continued stationary though his body has reached maturity--a more revolting picture was never presented than that of the condition of the idiot's wife--her horror of her husband--and of course her passion for another