! Her
dress was made of white silk, trimmed all round the bottom with deep
blonde lace, which was finished at the top with narrow silver cord. It
was looped up on one side with a bouquet of white flowers, with silver
leaves, and her waist was covered with a blonde lace bertha, and had a
bouquet of the same flowers on the front, called a _corsage_. She wore a
lace veil and a wreath of orange blossoms, and in her hand, tied fast
there, was another large bouquet, and a lace-bordered pocket
handkerchief. As to Mrs. Montague, she was hardly less splendidly
attired, in a mauve silk with eleven flounces, a lace collar and
sleeves, and a superb diamond breastpin--made of glass.

Well, dear me, I don't know how I can find room enough to describe all
the splendid ladies that came to the wedding. They were none of them
quite as elegant as Miss Isabella Belmont Montague, but they all had on
their Sunday-go-to-meeting, Fourth-of-July, Christmas-and-New-Year's
best clothes, and looked as fine as fiddles. Poor Miss Morris came, with
her handkerchief up to her eyes, and stayed so all the time, crying as
if her heart would break, I presume. She was so dismal, in her old green
barege, that Minnie kindly dressed her in Mrs. Montague's purple silk,
which fitted her quite well; so she didn't look so _very_ bad, after
all. Aren't you glad? I am.

Pretty soon in came the minister, who was no other than Angelina! as her
black nun's robe was the most like a gown that could be found; and when
she was set up with her back against the centre table, the parlor door
opened, and in marched the bride and bridegroom. Minnie and Maggie held
them in their proper places, and the minister married them in rhyme;
which, it strikes me, was a new style. This was what he said:

"Now you're married, you must obey;
You must be true to all you say,
And live together all your life;
And I pronounce you man and wife!"

When the marriage ceremony was over, the children set Mr. and Mrs.
Morris down side by side on the sofa, and leaving them to entertain the
company, and talk for themselves if they could, got the supper ready.
It was such a grand supper that they were obliged to have a table from
up stairs besides the dining table. Everything in the box of eatables
was brought out, even the roast beef and buttered toast, two dishes not
ordinarily seen at suppers. The sugar-plums were disposed around
wherever room could be