Marriage

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to be pursued by married ladies. Worsted stockings and quilted petticoats were insisted upon as indispensable articles of dress; while it was plainl

niece, your children will be just the same-only boys, for we are sadly in want of boys. It's melancholy to think we have not a boy among us, and that

gentlemen put a stop

in very audible tones, her inquires, whether he had

sked Miss Nicky, as she disseminated t

; and Psyche doats on a dish of tea." And she tendered the b

rveying the tea-table; "but I will r

answered

offee?" demand

ghlander; "troth, Miss Nicky,

can get it yet?

ta'en up, ye see," reckoning with his fingers, as he proceeded; "there's par

lf," said Miss Nicky, l

back, mutterin

but, that now ended, and the tea equipage being dismissed, startin

example," snapping his fingers,

is a merr

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sail ne'e

as we twa

s?" cried he. "Ho! Bel

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ng, the pipes were fairly set a going in Coil's most spirited manner. But vain would be the attempt to describe Lady Juliana's horror and amazement at the hideous sounds that for the first time assailed her ear. Tearing

the matter?" cried the wh

ana to death with your infernal music. What did you mean," turning f

r before had his performance on the bagpipe

tleman, as he went puffing up and down the room. "She's no the wife for

distressing thing I eve

her it could be the si

ed our dear niece. I

hlan wa

ody," said Miss Jacky, in a high key; "nobody wi

; all were ready to admit that it was a surprising thing when heard for the first time. Miss Jacky remarked that we are all liable to be surprised; and the still more sapient Grizzy sa

igue she had undergone, and the sufferings she had endured, that she must retire for the night. Henry, eager to escape from the questions and rem