"Constant companion [...] better than a dog anyhow." :-)

[verrucaria]

Some pros and cons of marriage per Charles Darwin:

http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwins-notes-on-marriage

Comments

[spider88]

Charms of music and female chit-chat!

[coanteen]

But terrible loss of time!

[verrucaria]

Oh, I know!

[verrucaria]

To be fair, the harpsichord sounds horrid to me. But maybe by then, they had something more closely resembling the lowly piano...

Not that I can play anything. I'm not very accomplished by early Victorian standards. And I can't weave or do anything practical either. Chit-chat it is then...

I don't know if Darwin would be into traveling and/or collecting with his spouse. What would people think?