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Show 168 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. her the scene which had just been enacted at my aunt's house." Terry Littlemore was a cousin of Fanny, there had been a reciprocity of sentiment existing between them for years, and their troths were pledged to have been married ere this, but from the opposition they had received from Mr. and Mrs. Oldham, Fanny's parents. Terry was well to do in the world, his moral character unexceptionable, and he could not conceive the reason that he was refused the hand of his cousin Fanny. Finding that his business required his services in a town in Missouri he bade adieu to Fanny, promising to return in a few weeks and marry her even without the consent of her parents. It was during his absence that the scene I have related, took place. Mrs. Oldham quietly listened to her daughter, and then told her that " the Prophet Joseph Smith had received a revelation from Heaven, that certain Mormon priests, were to take to themselves spiritual wives, in addition to the one wife they might have. Joseph Smith had lately seen Mrs. Oldham, and had approved of her daughter Fanny, as a wife for Mr. Wilson, Fanny's uncle, and believing as she did in the truth of Joseph Smith, she also approved of the marriage, and forbade her ever to think any more qf her cousin, Terry but to prepare herself to marry her uncle in a few days. Fanny became horror struck. She had hoped, on the bosom of a fond mother to have wept away the recollection of the unnatural and revolting proposal that had been made to her, but what was Fanny's dismay at hearing such a decision from her mother. As a last resort she sought her father, and on her knees begged him to interfere and prevent the dreadful sacrifice which was |
