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It is seldom that have been more touch
ed and effected than by scene which took
place at our church very few years ago
1t was a rough stormy morning, IN the month
of March. the wind ratified every pane OF
class in the windows, and sheets of rain
came pouring against them; a sad day tor
bridal festivities, and requiring much inter-
nal sunshine to dissipate the melancholy
feelings which the warfare of the clements
was calculated to produce. A bride, &C
companied by her father and mother, and
two or three other near relations, arrived in
a hired carriage, Just as the clock struck
the canoncal hour of eight; the bridegroom
a quarter of an hour later, stepped out OF
handsome chariot, evidently purchased tor
the occasion. Upon entering the Eestry, the
victim, for such must call her, sank into a
chair; her lips were compressed, her eyes
fxed bv strong effort she had succeeded IN
rcpressng her agitation, and sccm'd prepared
to go through the ceremony with satute-like
composure She was very young and look
ed as though she had sorrowed much; yet
wreck of her beauty remained, TO show now
bright it might have been. She was richly
dressed; but the pains of her tire-woman had
been thrown away, for at every cohvuisive
movement, which in spite ot her attempts al
ca!mness, shook her frame, some plat
or bow was disadiusted, and the feathers
in her bonnet had been broken, probably il
leaning her throbbing head against the side
of the carriage. Upon the entrance OF th'
bridegroom, a tall stout man, about forty, al
her struggles gave way, and she burst fort'
into such an agony of grief, that it appeare'
as if soul and body were parting. And, On
what a dark brow scowled upon her. III Tn
man who now sought to compel her rcluct
ant hand to his odious clasp The father ap
parently fearful that he woald turn back am