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Show LMPEESSIONS OF MOEMON SOCIETY. 159 to a mission to Great Britain previous to his last " sealing,"* and left for the States the day after the ball, he only enjoyed his last wife's society about four days- a very short honey-moon! The lady could have married a more eligible man- She must return to her parents' house to reside, for the three years her husband would be absent; yet she preferred to be the third wife of a man she loved, and who bore a high character for morality, etc., to being the first and only wife of an inconsiderate youth. After several rounds of dancing, a march was played by the band, and a procession formed. I conducted my first partner to the supper room, where I partook of a fine entertainment at the Governor's table. There must have been at least two hundred ladies present, and about one hundred gentlemen. I returned to my quarters at twelve o'clock, most favorably impressed with the exhibition of public society among the Mormons. * Sealing is the ceremony of spiritual marriage. |