During our conversation, a marriage party was announced, and I rose up to de part. The party was immediately introduced, and the ceremony took place, without any hesitation in his study. It was much like our own, only curtailed. The parties were not of full age, but this is almost universally the case of young people in the States at the time of marriage. A relation of the bride, a mere boy, attended to affirm that the parents knew of the match, and that there was no impediment.
Any industrious man can support a family, and that is as much as most people here exspect.
There is also plenty of room to spread in, without any danger of overpopulation. If a family is in difficulty at one time, it can generally make up the deficiency at another. Gentleman Callers on New Year's Day. A lawyer, with whom I had contracted an intimacy, introduced me on that day to about thirty ladies. The rounds of calls we made, occupied our time from nine in the morning till seven at night.