my old song the fair having nearly recovered from the effects of her disaster it begins to be thought high time to a day for the wedding as every domestic event in a venerable and aristocratic family like this is a matter of moment the fixing upon this important day has of course given rise to much conference and debate some slight difficulties and have lately sprung up in the peculiar that are at the hall thus i have overheard a very solemn consultation lovers troubles between lady the parson and master as to whether the marriage ought not to be postponed until the coming month with all the charms of the month of may there is i find an ancient prejudice against it as a marrying month an old proverb says to wed in may is to wed poverty now as lady is very much given to believe in lucky and unlucky times and seasons and indeed is very superstitious on all points relating to the tender passion this old proverb seems to have taken great hold upon her mind she two or three instances in her own knowledge of matches that took place in this month and proved very unfortunate indeed an own cousin of hers who married on a may day lost her husband by a fall from his horse after they had lived happily together for twenty years the parson appeared to give great weight to her s objections and acknowledged the existence of a prejudice of the kind not merely confined to modern times but pre s troubles talent likewise among the in con js of this he quoted a passage from which had a great effect on lady being given in a language which she did not understand even master was staggered by it for he listened with a puzzled air and then shaking his head observed that was certainly a very wise man from this sage conference i likewise gathered other important pieces of information relative to such as that if two were in the same church on the same day the first would be happy the second unfortunate if on going to church the party should meet the funeral of a female it was an omen that the bride would die first if of a male the bridegroom if the newly married couple were to dance together on their wedding day the wife would rule the roast with many other curious and facts of the same nature all which made me more than ever upon the lovers troubled perils which this happy stated and the ignorance of mortals as to the risks they run in upon it i ah tain however from upon this topic no inclination to promote the increase of notwithstanding the due weight which the squire gives to and ancient opinions yet i am happy to find that he makes a firm stand for the credit of this loving months and brings to his aid a whole of poetical authorities all which i presume have been with the young couple as i understand they are perfectly willing to marry in may and abide the consequences in a few days therefore the wedding is to take place and the hall is in a of anticipation the housekeeper is bustling about from morning till night with a look full of business and im having a thousand arrangements to make the squire intending to keep open house on the occasion and as to the house maids lovers troubles you cannot look one of them in the face but the rogue begins to colour up and while however this leading love affair is going on with a tranquillity quite inconsistent with the rules of romance i cannot say that the under plots are equally the opening bud of love between the general and lady seems to have experienced some in the course of this genial season i do not think the general has ever been able to the ground he lost when he fell asleep during the captain s story indeed master thinks his case is completely desperate her having determined that he is quite destitute of sentiment the season has been equally to the love i fear the reader will be impatient at having this humble so often alluded to but i confess i am apt to take a great interest in the love troubles of simple girls of this class few people have an idea of the world of care and troubles that these poor have in managing the affairs of the heart we talk and write about the tender passion we give it all the of sentiment and romance and lay the scene of its influence in high life but after all i doubt whether its sway is not more absolute among females of a sphere how often could we but look into the heart should we find the sentiment throbbing in all its violence in the bosom of the poor lady s maid rather than in that of the brilliant beauty she is out for conquest whose brain is probably bewildered with ball rooms and wax light with these humble beings love is an honest concern they have no ideas of and pin money the heart � the heart is all in all with them poor things there is seldom one of them but has her love cares and love secrets her doubts and hopes and fears equal to those of any heroine of romance and ten times as lovers troubles sincere and then too there is her secret love documents � the broken sixpence the gilded the lock of hair the unintelligible love all up in her box of sunday finery for private how many crosses and trials is she exposed from some eyed dame or staid old of a mistress who keeps a watch over her virtue and the lover from the door but then how sweet are the little love scenes snatched at distant intervals of 