Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... IV. CURRAGHMORE. "Here, at least, is the smile that no cloud can o'ercast, And the heart and the hand all thine own to the last." Right Hon. Robert Lowe. ' L'action bonne et parfaite est le veritable caractere de l'amour de Dieu.... C'est l'amour effectif qu'il faut a Dieu."--S. Vincent De Paul. Lord Stuart De Rothesay came over from St. Petersburg for the marriage of his daughter Louisa. It took place on June 8, 1842, in the royal chapel of Whitehall, where no marriage had taken place for fifteen years before, but which was close to Lord Stuart's house in Whitehall Place. Lord Waterford was accompanied by his brothers, Lords John and William Beresford, and his uncle, the Archbishop of Armagh, performed the ceremony. Exactly at eleven o'clock the bride arrived with her father and mother, and entered the chapel, followed by her bridesmaids--Lady Jane Bouverie, Lady Caroline Somers-Cocks, Lady Sarah Savile, the Hon. Miss Stuart, and the Misses Beresford. Constance, Lady Lothian, niece of the bridegroom, who was present at six years old, has a vivid remembrance of the wonderful collection of very old ladies who pressed forward after the ceremony, to embrace the bride; they were her grandmother Lady Hardwicke, with her daughters, and Lady Charlotte Lindsay with the Miss Berrys. After the breakfast at Lord Stuart's house in Whitehall, the bridal pair left for the Priory, Lord Somers' place near Reigate. Miss Berry to Elizabeth, Countess Of Hardwicke. "June 8, 1842.--You were sitting on a low seat by the altar, in the hope, as I suppose, of being able to see the bride's face, and I left you there to take a place where I could command a view of the first entrance into the chapel. We watched some time, and Lord Waterford came up to the altar, ...
