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Show 25 age of nineteen, she could say: From the time my promise was first given my mind had dwelt seriously upon the step I was taking. I considered it in all its phases. I realized how uncertain is human happiness, and that a wife's position was serious, and responsible. But oh I was confident I would be happy for was not my future felicity depending on Milford, that truly noble man who to me was so endeared. He was to me all that the enlivened fancy of girlhood or the matured judgment of woman could picture in her imagination. So kind and affectionate, so faithful to the cause of Mormonism. So wise and intellectual and possessed of that fine intuitiveness so rarely found in the nature of man. He was ambitious, ardent and energetic in all that was noble and laudable. Enthusiastic and spirited in conversation. In truth, I never saw a person who could so enchain and fascinate by the power of language. During the three weeks that followed Milford called to see me often, and Oh, how very pleasant were those visits. Making plans for the future and exchanging words of love and eternal faithfulness occupied the fleeting moments. How sweet to know that you are beloved, and to feel that it is in your power to promote the felicity and comfort of that being you hold most dear in life J** On the bright, clear morning of May 5, 1866 Ellis, attired in soft white muslin, slipped into "The Long Room" in Brigham Young's home and made earnest petitions that she might honorably fill her new role. "I think I never was so eloquent in my communings with my Heavenly Father...My faith was implicit and there was a voice within whispering, 'Thy prayers shall be answered.'" Upon arising, she opened the shutter and saw Milford coming up the hill. This gave rise to such maidenly palpitations that she fled to her upstairs room and waited until he and his cousin had been admitted below. She later could not remember many details other than that "Brother H. C. Kimball pronounced us one-and I feel that it was not all ceremony, but that our hearts were united in an |