On the contrary, that Gentleman grew every Day fonder of little Tommy, as if he intended to counterbalance his Severity to the Father with extraordinary Fondneſs and Affection towards the Son.
This a good deal ſoured the Captain’s Temper, as did all the other daily Inſtances of Mr. Allworthy’s Generoſity: For he looked on all ſuch Largeſſes to be Diminutions of his own Wealth.
In this, we have faid, he did not agree with his Wife; nor indeed, in any thing elſe: For tho’ an Affection placed on the Underſtanding is by many wiſe Perſons thought much more durable than that which is founded on Beauty, yet it happened otherwiſe in the preſent Caſe. Nay, the Underſtandings of this Couple were their principal Bone of Contention, and one great Cauſe of many Quarrels which from time to time aroſe between them; and which at laſt ended, on the Side of the Lady, in a ſovereign Contempt for her Huſband, and on the Huſband’s, in an utter Abhorrence of his Wife.
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