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Show 'l'ltE Llll.EnTY ll};!,L. saw were minute and few ; but their character was not to be mistaken. IIc wished himself a. hundred miles off. lie would fain have had those little marks on his own breast rather than go through what he saw must happen that night. But he would not leave the scene. llc was called away to a case more advanced than hers; but he hastened back, in time to witness the ceremony. He saw her married ; and his composure no doubt remo\·ed the fears of the mother i for ull was Uone cheerfully,- merrily; and, when the guests sat down to the evening banquet, no one but himself seemed to sec that Death was of the company. As soon as the table was cleared, however, the ladies withdrew ; for the bride could not conceal that she was oppressed with headache. After that, all was gloom and tenor. When the poor girl's frantic cries were hea.rd from up stairs, the one low groan from the bridegroom sent everybody away. The young husband could not stay beside his bride ; llt:~ IILE'J'T:\ 1 TlUJ J:IUDL for she did not know him. While he cooled her head, she cried out for him, with so ngonize<l a. cry that he could not bear it. )?rom the door he nctunlly henrd tho palpitntions of her henrt. By midnight, mortification had set in on that fair Lroast where tho small purple specks had caught her mother's eye. The first llasscngcrs in the early morning saw the house shut up, and the red cross on tho door ; and no one was within but the old woman who made her harvest of tending the dead. She called from the window; the dead-cart came. 'l'he old woman made a. plentiful morning meal of the remains of the wedding feast; made a bundle of the rich dress of the bride, holding that lace ruff to the light with admiration, before she folded it up for her huudle, locked the door nfter her as she went out, and loft the abode where there had been so much mirth yesterday, and where nothing was now heard but tho rustle of the mice, which camo boldly forth to revel in the fragments of tho good cheer. |