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Book Excerpt: bride showing no repugnance, butbeing absolutely passive in everything her mother commanded oradvised. On the day of the marriage, which, as was then usual, was celebrated by a great assemblage of friends and relations, she was the same--sad, silent, and resigned, as it seemed, to herdestiny. A lady, very nearly connected with the family, told theAuthor that she had conversed on the subject with one of thebrothers of the bride, a mere lad at the time, who had riddenbefore his sister to church. He said her hand, which lay on hisas she held her arm around his waist, was as cold and damp asmarble. But, full of his new dress and the part he acted in theprocession, the circumstance, which he long afterwards rememberedwith bitter sorrow and compunction, made no impression on him atthe time.The bridal feast was followed by dancing. The bride andbridegroom retired as usual, when of a sudden the most wild andpiercing cries were heard from the nuptial chamber. It was thenthe custom, to preventRead Mo
