Excerpt from The Life and Times of Joseph GouldPopularity of Gould's mill-increasing prosperity - What industry and self-denial can do - Punctuality in engagements - Good results of this principle - A lesson to others - Looking out for a helpmate - Youthful follies corrected - Tums to his friends the Quakers to choose a Wife - The James Family - Three well-brought-up daughters - Opinion of the Quaker dress for ladies - Fashionable dress condemned - Admiration of the James young ladies - Invited to the house - Courtship Mary J ames - His attachment reciprocated - Proposes - Is accepted - The day fixed - A light heart Many a slip, etc.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.