any body until baby is old enough to be married what happen if he did of mrs my dear mr it s very foolish i know but i have an instinctive that if gave away anybody else first he would never give away baby thus mrs with her open hands pressed together and each of her eight fingers looking so very like her one nose that the new jewels on them seem necessary for distinction s sake but my dear there m a tried friend of our who i think and hope you will agree with me is the friend on whom this agreeable duty almost naturally that friend saying the words as if the company were about a hundred and fifty in number is now among us that friend is certainly i from that friend with greater firmness is our dear good and i cannot sufficiently to you my dear the pleasure i feel in having this of mine and s so readily confirmed by you that other equally familiar and tried friend who stands in tne proud position � i mean who proudly stands in the position � or i ought rather to say who places and myself in the proud position of himself standing m th simple position � of baby s and indeed is much relieved in mind to find that no jealousy of s elevation so it has come to pass that the spring van is flowers on the rosy hours and on the staircase and that is surveying the ground on which he is to play distinguished part to morrow he has already been to the church and taken note of the various in the aisle under the of an extremely dreary widow who opens the and whose left hand appears to be in a state of acute but is in fact doubled up to act as a money box and now shoots out of the study wherein he is accustomed when to give his mind to the carving and of the going to in order to show the little he has prepared for the of fashion describing how that on the instant at st james s church the blank blank assisted by the reverend dash dash in the bonds of matrimony al ed of street to only daughter of the late of also how the fair bride was married from the house of of and was given away by of duke street st james s second cousin to lord of park while which composition makes some approach to perceiving that if the blank blank and the dash dash after this introduction to become in the list of s dearest and oldest friends they will have none but themselves to thank for it after which appears whom has seen twice in his lifetime to thank for the late of and after her appears alfred whom has seen once in his lifetime to do the same and to make a sort of glitter as if he were constructed for candle light only ana had been let out into daylight by some grand mistake and after that comes mrs in a state of figure and with transparent little on her temper like the little transparent on the bridge of her nose worn out by worry and excitement as she tells her dear mr and reluctantly revived with oa by the and after that the b in to come by from the come like by a not present for on arriving at the they are in a of so goes home to duke street st james s to take a plate of mutton with a chop in it and a look at the marriage service in order that he may out in at the right place to morrow and he is low and feels it dim over the lively stable yard and is distinctly aware of a dint in his heart made by the most of the for the poor little harmless gentleman once had his fancy like the rest of us and she didn t answer as she often does not and he thinks the is like the as she was then which she is not at all and that if the had not married some one else for money but had married him for love he and she would have been happy which they wouldn t have been and that she has a tenderness for him still whereas her is a proverb brooding over the fire with his dried little head in his dried little hands and his dried little elbows on his dried little knees is melancholy no to bear me company here thinks he no at the club i a waste a waste a waste my and so drops asleep and has starts all next morning that horrible old lady of the late sir thomas in mistake for somebody else by his majesty king george the third who while performing the ceremony was pleased to observe what what what who who who why why why begins to be and for the interesting occasion she has a reputation for giving smart of things and she must be at these people s my dear to lose nothing of the fan m the bonnet and announced by her name any fragment of the real woman may be concealed is perhaps known to her maid but you could easily buy au you see of her in bond street or you might her and her and scrape her and make two lady out of her and yet not penetrate to the genuine article she has a large gold eye glass has lady to survey the proceedings with if she had one in each eye it might keep that other drooping lid up and look more uniform but youth is in her artificial flowers and her list of lovers is you wretch says lady turning the eye about and about where is your charge the bridegroom give you my 