The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-19

OF his plan for receiving her along with
a. rs she pleaded Sickness, and refused to
go 10 the church to be confirmed. Of
coarse she had her way, and the good
bishop had all the trouble which the graft
fl ,ation of her whim imposed. He was in
dUced 10 say that he would come with his
assistant rector on the afternoon designated
and confirm the spoiled beauty
Miss Rives sent out cards OF invitation tc
numerous guests, prepared for a formal din
ner party, and W hen the bishop came the
parlors we're full of relations and friends
and the house decorated with flowers as for
wedding. The arch separating the double
drawing rooms was hung with garlands OF
roses, and when the young COMMUNICATE
made her appearance, leaning on the arm
of her father, she was dressed as a bride
carrying in her hand a great bouquet OF
white roses, and the conventional fan and
lace handkerchief. She was led under the
flower adorned arch, and taking a position
facing the bishop, the ceremony began, and
she became full member of the church.
Afterward the guests were entertained at
an elaborate repast, and the occasion was as
festive as wedding The heroine evident
ly looked upon herself as the bride of the
church, and she simply meant to be a credit
to her spouse. Despite all the sensational
things she does, Miss Rives is thoroughly
amiable young woman, and her friends es-
TEEN her for noble qualities of head and
heart. She is spoiled, but in one young,
gifted and wealthy, eccentricities are ad-
mired. Sre seems to be a second Ouida in
her ideas ofpersonal conduct, but her SEN
timental and sensational ways are excused
on the score of youth, and the kind and SEN
sible heart is often manifested by her.
Since her marriage she has laid aside some
of her lazy ways, and having been much
from home she has been compelled to con-
form to commonplace ways of living. Soon
she will go to Paris to remain an indefinite
time, and no doubt her extravagant ways
will be abandoned in toto after she is sepa-
rated from her Virginia home. Her mar
riage has been painful trial to that Abe
male county household, the members of
which adore her. The servants, the horses
and dogs miss her daily, while her father
and mother. brothers and sisters wonder
how they could have been induced to give
her up They did so because she had made
up her mind to get married, and her idea in
assuming the yoke of matrimony so sudden
ly was to stop the gossip concerning her,
caused by the notoriety which her Quick
or The Dead" had gained for her. The in
terest attaching to her was greatly dis
sipated by her unromantic marriage, and
the public, to revenge itself against one from
whom they expected something out of tho
common run, eagerly accepted the story
that her marriage was not matter of the
heart; that while she gave her hand to the
eminently worthy gentleman who won it,
her real, romantic attachment was for a
young kinsman of hers who was reared on
Virginia soil, and had no love for any re-
gion outside of his beloved hills. The fam
lily denied the statement, and the young
novelist has dropped into comparative
oblivion.
The popular story of her fathers Colonel
Rives0 revision of her literary work is
laughable to one who knows the colonel and
his daughter. In the first place, he considers
all that she does perfection, for the all
sufficient reason that she does it; and more
than that, such is her imperious nature
that she would not submit to criticism. And
why indeed should she! If immense and
sudden popularity is an indication of sue
cess, if offers from many publishers of
large sums for single story is any critic
rion of her standing, she has reason to
feel that she has correctly gagged
the literary taste of our dearly beloved
American public. Who shall wonder that
her pretty young head is turned!