t money for old to show off with they supposed did they what business was it of old s more than anybody else s it wasn t his why couldn t he leave the boys property alone and murmuring other expressions of their dissatisfaction which seemed to find a greater relief in calling him old than in any other available vent not a word had been said to the young gentlemen nor a hint dropped of anything like a contemplated marriage between mr b a and the fair doctor especially seemed to take pains to look as if nothing would surprise him more but it was perfectly well known to all the young gentlemen nevertheless and when they departed for the society of their relations and friends they took leave of mr with awe and son mr s most romantic visions were fulfilled the doctor had determined to paint the house outside and put it in thorough repair and to give up the business and to give up the and began upon the very day of the young gentlemen s departure and now behold the wedding morning was and in a new pair of spectacles was waiting to be led to the altar the doctor with his learned legs and mrs in a bonnet and mr b a with his long and his head of hair and mr s brother the reverend alfred m a who was to perform the ceremony were all assembled in the drawing room and with her and had just come down and looked as of old a little squeezed in appearance but very charming when the door opened and the weak eyed young man in a loud voice made the following mr and mrs upon which there entered mr grown extremely stout and on his arm a lady very handsomely and dressed with very bright black eyes mrs said mr allow me to present my wife mrs was delighted to receive her mrs was a little but extremely kind and as you v e known me for a long time you know said mr let me assure you that she is one of the most remarkable women that ever lived my dear remonstrated mrs upon my word and honor she is said mr i � i assure you mrs she s a most extraordinary woman mrs laughed merrily and mrs led her to mr having paid his respects in that direction and having saluted his old who said in allusion to his state well well so you are one of us are you � retired with mr b a into a window mr b a being in great spirits made a at mr and tapped him with the back of his hand on the breast bone and son well old buck said mr with a laugh � well here we are taken in and done for eh v returned mr i give you joy if you re as � as � as perfectly in a matrimonial life as i am myself you ll have nothing to desire i don t forget my old friends you see said mr i ask em to my wedding replied mr gravely the fact is that there were several circumstances which prevented me from with you until after my marriage had been in the first place i had made a perfect brute of myself to you on the subject of miss and i felt that if you were asked to any wedding of mine you would naturally expect that it was with miss which involved explanations that upon my word and honor at that crisis would have knocked me completely over in the second place our wedding was strictly private there being nobody present but one friend of myself and mrs s who is a captain in � i don t exactly know in what said mr but it s of no consequence i hope that in writing a statement of what had occurred before mrs and myself went abroad upon our foreign tour i fully discharged the offices of friendship my boy said mr shaking hands i joking and now said mr i should be glad to know what you think of my union capital returned mr you think it s capital do you said mr solemnly then how capital must it be to me for you can never know what an extraordinary woman that is mr was willing to take it for granted but mr shook his head and wouldn t hear of that being possible you see said mr what wanted in a wife was � in short was sense money i had sense i � i had not mr murmured oh yes you had but mr said no i had not why should i disguise it i had and son not i knew that sense was there said mr stretching out his hand towards his wife in perfect heaps i had no relation to object or be offended on the score of station for i had no relation i have never had anybody belonging to me but my guardian and him i have always considered as a and a therefore you know it was not likely said mr that i should take his opinion no said mr accordingly resumed mr i acted on my own bright was the day on which i did so nobody but myself can tell what the capacity of that woman s mind b if ever the rights of women and all that kind of thing are properly attended to it will be through her powerful intellect � my dear said mr looking abruptly out of the window curtains pray do not exert yourself my dear said mrs i was only talking but my love said mr pray do not exert yourself you really must be careful do not my dear exert yourself she s so easily excited said mr apart to mrs and then she forgets the medical man altogether mrs 