Cherry & Violet: A Tale of the Great Plague

Excerpt: I wonder whether many People on reviewing their past Lives feel as I do on looking back on mine; that had they had the ordering the outward Circumstances connected with them beforehand such as Time Place Health Sickness Friends Acquaintances and such-like Conditions they could not have arranged them half so well as they have been disposed for them. When I fall into a Muse on the Past the Moments fly so swiftly that I am lost in Amazement when I find how the Time has slipped by while thus pleasantly employed. And yet many of the Arrangements which were made for me by a greater Wisdom than mine were such as at the Time were far from agreeable to me; nay were sometimes so repugnant to Flesh and Blood as to nourish rebellious Thoughts and call forth Showers of Tears. And still the Process went on; as I now see all for my Good.