other equally familiar and tried friend who stands in the 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 in the 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 his 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 mutual friend widow who opens the and whose left hand appears to be in a state of acute but is in fact voluntarily 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 flourish he has prepared for the trumpets of fashion describing how that on the instant at st james s church the blank blank assisted by the dash dash united in the bonds of matrimony alfred 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 fail 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 and 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 by the and after that the begin to come by railroad from various parts of the country and to come like by a not present for on arriving at the they are in a of strangers 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 cut in at the right place to morrow and he is low and feels it dull over the livery 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 fancy as she was then which she is not at all and that if the fancy 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 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 a waste mutual a waste a waste my and so drops asleep and has starts all over him 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 graciously pleased to observe what what what who who who why why why n begins to be and for the interesting occasion she a reputation for giving smart accounts of things and she must be at these people s early my dear to lose nothing of the fun in the bonnet and announced by her name any fragment of the real woman may he concealed is perhaps known to her maid but you could easily buy all 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 ml u you wretch says lady turning the eye glass about and about where is your charge the bridegroom give you my honor returns tt i don t know and i don t care miserable is that the way you do your duty f beyond an impression that he is to sit upon my knee and be at some point of the like a principal at a prize fight i assure you i have no notion what my duty is returns is also in attendance with a air upon him of having the ceremony to be a funeral and of being disappointed the scene is the room of st james s church with a number of old on shelves that might be bound in lady but hark a carriage at the gate and s man arrives looking rather like a and an member of that gentleman s family whom lady surveying through her eye glass considers a fine man and quite a catch and of whom remarks in the 