have introduced in the person of that his own stately lady disguised arrived at in a car and like the fairy at the of the to do something dreadful to the marriage service and truly he had a momentary reason to be pale of face and to whisper to you don t think that can be your ma do you my dear on account of a mysterious rustling and a stealthy movement somewhere in the remote neighbourhood of the organ though it was gone directly and was heard no more it was heard of afterwards as will afterwards he read in this register of marriage who i john and so do i who l r w and as john and have consented together in holy you may in short consider it done and withdraw your two wooden legs from this temple to the foregoing purport the minister speaking as directed by the to the people represented in the present instance by g and g above mentioned and now the church porch having swallowed up for ever and over had it not in its power to that young woman but slid into the happy sunlight mrs john instead and long on the bright steps stood and looking after the pretty bride with a consciousness of having dreamed a dream after which took out from her pocket a little letter and read it aloud to pa and john this being a true copy of the same � � dearest ma i hope you won t be angry but i am most happily married to mr john who loves me better than i can ever deserve except by loving him with all my heart i thought it best not to mention it beforehand in case it should cause any little difference at home please tell darling pa with love to ever dearest ma your affectionate daughter p s � then john put the queen s countenance on the letter � when had her gracious majesty looked so as on that blessed morning � and then it into the post office and said merrily now dearest pa you are safe and will never be taken alive the new as j an d � i ro k l s � i l u � our mutual friend fa was at first in the stirred depths of his conscience so far from sore of being safe yet that he made out majestic lurking in among the harmless trees of park and seemed to see a stately countenance tied up in a well known pocket handkerchief down at him from a window of the where the of the royal nightly the stars but the minutes passing on and no mrs in the flesh appearing he became more confident and so repaired with good heart and appetite to mr and mrs john s cottage on where breakfast was ready a modest little cottage but a bright and a fresh and on the snowy the prettiest of little in waiting too like an attendant summer breeze a fluttering young all pink and ribbons blushing as if she had been married instead of and yet asserting the triumph of her sex over both john and fa in an and exalted as who should say this is what you must all come to gentlemen when we choose to bring you to book this same young was s serving maid and unto her did deliver a bunch of keys commanding treasures in the way of and the investigation of which made after breakfast when declared that fa must taste everything john dear or it will never be lucky and when pa had all sorts of things into his mouth and didn t quite know what to do with them when they were put there then they all three out for a charming ride and for a charming stroll among heath in bloom and there behold the identical and with his wooden legs disposed before him apparently sitting meditating on the of life to whom said in her light hearted surprise oh how do you do again what a dear old you are to which and responded that he see her married this morning my beauty and that if it warn t a liberty he wished her ji and the fairest of and weather further in a general way to know what cheer and up on his two wooden legs to salute hat in hand ship shape with the gallantry of a man of and a heart of oak it was a pleasant sight in the midst of the golden bloom to see this salt old and waving his hat at while his thin white hair flowed free as if she had once more launched him into blue water again you are a charming old said and am so happy that i wish i could make you happy too answered and give me leave to kiss your hand my lovely and it s done so it was done to the general contentment and if and didn t in the course of the afternoon the main brace it was not for want of the means of that outrage on the feelings of the infant bands of hope but the marriage dinner was the crowning success for what had bride and bridegroom to do but to have and to hold that dinner in the very room of the very hotel where fa and the lovely woman had once dined together sat between fa and john and divided her attentions pretty equally but felt it necessary in the our mutual friend waiter s absence before dinner to remind fa that she was his lovely woman no longer i am well aware of it my dear returned the and i resign you willingly u willingly sir you ought to be so i should be my dear if i thought that i was going to lose you but you know you are not don t you poor dear 