Mrs. Bullfrog Nathaniel Hawthorne 2 It makes me melancholy to see how like fools some very sensible people act in the matter of choosing wives. They perplex their judgments by a most undue attention to little niceties of personal appearance, habits, disposition, and other trifles which concern nobody but the lady herself. An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them. Now this is the very height of absurdity... The true rule is to ascertain that the match is fundamentally a good one, and then to take it for granted that all minor objections, should there be such, will vanish, if you let them alone.. Besides the fundamental principle already hinted at, demanded the tresh bloom of youth, pearly teeth, glossy ringlets, and the whole list of lovely items, with the utmost delicacy of habits and sentiments, a silken texture of mind, and, above all, a virgin heart. in a word, if a young angel just from paradise, yet dressed in earthly fashion, had come and offered me her hand, it is by no means certain that I should have taken it. There was every chance of my becoming a most miserable old bachelor, when, by the best Which sentence BEST expresses the main idea of the story? 1x D 00 г. Mrs. Bullfrog and Mr. Bullfrog are really just old friends who took a long time to get to know each other, and even longer to get married. Mr. Bulffrog thinks he may be a bachelor all of his life, but he has a plan for how he can trick a woman into marrying him. People who are rich often get preferential treatment because of their money. People are foolish in trying to choose a wife who is perfect, instead of finding a good match and accepting the imperfections.

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