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Two Weddings

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
June
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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A little flush of prido passed over our souls when the big, square envelope cauio to hand, with its elegant inolosures, showing tUat our oíd and prosporous acquaiutance had weighed us in the social balance, and not found us wanting. Let us liaste to the wedding ! we naid to Theodosia on the eventful day ; aud being divided liko sheop froiu the vulgar goats who swarmed and stared upon tho sidewalk, wo passed up statdy, between starblazoncd polieemun, under the bright canopy, into tho groat, paeked, rustling, whispuring, g.'iudy churcli - a very scventh hoavi-n oí' i'ashion, with sweet-scentcil welcoming chemba in kid glovos and swallow-tails. O Deary ! We can't begin to teil how fine it was ; how beautiful the bride lookiil in her pearls and diamonds and long train, and vuil roaching to the grouud, and the three blushing bndes-maids ! Wi: r;in't legin to describo the gorgeous floral hangings, the woalth of bouquets, wreatlis, eniblems, sprigs, sprays, and wliatnot; and tho cenmumy, so unpreasive ; with everything, indoed, so coiduer I" rtixi'. and appropriate and touching, - everybody standing, all oí' a tremor, 011 tip-toe, to catch a glimpsc of the happy eouple as they step briskly down tin: aisle, - the organ roaring and raging, and squawking aud iquealing, and whistling and cooing, liko a well-assortod unhappy family oí' wild beasts. And if the Scène at the sanctuary is inde8Cribablo, what can bu said of tho Recoption at the house ! Kor were there not niiurteen hundred invitations out, and were there not present the Pickaiminit.s and tho Gurullys, yes, and the Grand rinj:iudruiu himsclf, with the little round button at the top ? And was not Mrs. A.'s elegant " point " actually toru froiu hor back by the crowd ; and was not the table a marvel of costliness and delicacy, and all mysterious daintinesses ! Thon to seo us all maroh around in procession, to view tho cor - we mean to congratúlate the bride, and the man who had won her ; then to behold us pusheil and jerked and squeezed out into tho hall, and up tho wide stairway, and into the room where the presents were arrayed on green shelves, and two detectives stood on guard. And such presents - such boautiful dazzling, unheard-of things - it was enough to wake ono dizzy. And what if the bride did look dole'ully fagged as she stood thero, in her jlory, under the bridal bell, and what if Miss B. went away sour and severe, because Miss C, the vain thinr, had worn a jroat deal more exponsivo lace thun th.it Miss B. had ordered months ago tbr this very aff'air ; and what if the flowers had wire sterns ; and what if thero woro more ioe-pitohers and cuckoo clocks oh thu green shelves than any young couple could find use for ; and what if. a great many people were very mad because they wore not invited, and a groat many othor people, who were invited, spent a great deal more money than they could afford in new dresses and supererogatory presents ; what if the bride's father turned pale, next day, when he footed up the cost of the happy occasion ; and what if (although the deoper meaning and the liui.ntn graco coulc'. not be altogcthcr furbelowed from sight) it did seem so much like a hollow show and a mournful mockery of sacred things ; - was it not a grand affair - a nine-days' wonder - and did not the Toirn. Titillator (which, if you were at tho wedding, you bought on the sly to seo if your namo was mentioued) pronounce it, with consciontious discrimination, " Ihe event of the season," " McFlimsey Place haviug seldom behold its equal in all that goes to nxake up a brilliant and imposing effect." Ycs, it was a grand wedding. We havo attended anothcr ono since - a small affair; not to be mentioned on tho same day with the McFlimsey Placo sensation, except to show by comparison what a surpassing success was the formor. A little way out in tho country - rather a rural arrangement altogethor; no style at all ; very fow thero bcside the family. Bless you! tho biHe and grcom to bó were both down at the front door to welcome us when we got in from the train ; and WO had lots of fun boforo hor brotln-r Bob came to tho door, - with a strainod, lnoist brightness in his eye, - andbeckoned to her to go up stuirs and put on her bonnet - no, it wasn't a bonnet either, just a protty littlo tra veling hat, trimmed with - something or othor, to match the sweetest, ncatost, most common sehso (iuakur-eolored suit that ever you sawj The littlo chureh was quite orondea with tho villagors, even the tiny, odd choir-loft was full to overflowing, and somebody had built a flowery arbor, odorous of apple-blossoins, just in front of tho altar. There they were married ; and as they turned to go, a little girl, all dressed in white and carrying a basket, sprang, up lik; a fairy, 110 one knew whenee, and flitted along tho aisle, and down the stono steps in front of them, sprinkling fiowors in their path. Theu there was another jolly time at the house, and aftel much kissing and a few tears, a oarriage drove away from the door, followed in mid-air by an old shoe, flung with a will. And so - out under the showery, sunshiny April sky - " Acrosa the hilk tlioy went In that new worKl which is the old." The OU Caliiiet, in Scribnei'sfor June.

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Old News
Michigan Argus