Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-08-05


our position, we do not doubt"
"Your excellency said 1.
"Not yet, sir" he interrupted, with
one of his most gracious inclinations.
"Tour excellency went on all the
same-"is great master, and the pupil
is apt"
The silly fat state -funclionary liked
meaningless pomposities of that kind be-
yond measure, as l knew, and was set
bowing like mandarin for several min
utes.
On the next day, most of the wedding
company arrived: Lady Topping Tower,
the married sister, who bore a sort Of
painful resemblance to Emily herself
she brought half starved looking
French maid with her, of whom she
seemed to stand. nevertheless, in no lit
lie awe, and did not present favorable
example in any way Of the bliss of high
alliances; the Lord Straightforward, a
plump, jovil old noblem9n. who seemed
to have met with nothing up that long
life journey of his, but carriages full of
other jovial noblemeu, ani amusing
beggars by the SoaIside, who stood on
their heads for pennies, and were thank
ful f them; the Hon. and Rev. Swete
Similar. his brother. gentleman of the
most urbane grace, who had come ex-
press from Windsor TO perform the mys-
tic ceremony between his beloved cousin
Emily, and his most respected and tai
ented connection, her Majesty's atoche,
these two with costly gift and stilled
phrase apiece for the young bride: and
another Swete Similar from bis crack
regiment at Gibralter, with a Meditera-
mean jewel for her waist, and a kiss for
his cousins brow, which he claimed and
imprinted, to the astonishment of the
groom elect, before US all. There wei e
no fewer than five aunts-two of the
Wink werd, and three of The Trevor fam
lily, one of the latter of whom, | was
given to understand, was made of mon
ey. She was made of a good number
of other things besides, however; and
Jack Camellair expressed to ME a wish to
take two sketches of ner, TO be entitled
Before" and CATER" which he reck-
oned would become popular: the one
with her false eyebrows, hair, teeth, col
or, and figure on; and the other without
these accessories. There were also eight /.
bridemaiJs, selected exclusively from I
the families Of the landed gentry; and
the rec!ory was full.
The Rev. Claude, l will do him the
justice to say, was. with the exception of
my dear Garry, the only person who did
not seem thoroughly Satisfied with the
pending event; he was perpetually ex-
pressing his delight about it, and asking
the opinion of everybody upon the sub
ject, which he intended should be given
only in one way. He came down from
his pedestal so great number of steps
even, as to demand mine. "Don't you
think, sir, that Mr.. Ambrose gives one
quite the idea of one Of EngIand's Dip
lomatists?" To which 1 assen'ed fer
vently. He went about the house shak-
ing hands with all sorts of people he did
not care for, in nervous fill up the time
sort of manner. and kissing his poor
Emily perpetually, as though she were
about to take some doubtful or hazard.
Ous step. Whenever this happened. all
her stateliness melted away at once, and
she rested on her dear fathers bosom
like rose bud touched with the dew
Once, l am perfectly certain, she was
about to tell him something, and make a
regular scene, only she cought two pair
oi eyes fixed upon her at that very mo
Ambrose Slasher's, saying,
rather languidly. but with quite sufficient
malice, nevertheless What! you're
sorry to go away from home, are you,
and afraid to trust yourself to my tender
nercies, young woman!" and Jacks, ap
,ealing to her with the expression of his
,wn "Tullus Aufiius," in last years
Exhibition, where he is evidently Ie-
with Coriolanus, besoughi
" his mother: "Now, you won't go, :;
arely, in moment of flial indiscretion,
nd wreck all our plans" 6
What Jacks plans were, as l have /,
aid, l knew nothing about; but nv !,
ears for their discovery made the day :;
ass wearily enough. l should have
bought, if it had not been for a certain
ender gratefulness in Emily's "Good-
ighs" that evening, that all hcp" of out ;;
the aLtache h ,d died away.
hat great man sat up haIi tie night in I. :
le library with an enormrus desk, =
'ansacting The fag-ends Of ;is bachelor
usiness-burning lOve-lelte:s, and de- h,
roying locks of hair, as he would have
ad US believe, and did not retire till
bout one o'clock heard his steady step k,
scend the stairs with official regularity; Z"
nd presently-in the adjoining chamber th
the deep bass notes proclaimed that al
ne of Britannia's guardians was relax al
g his perpetual vigilance. L strove to G