Satires of Circumstance No.4

in 15 glimpses

In the Room of the Bride-Elect

'Would it had been the man of our wish!'

Sighs her mother. To whom with vehemence she

In the wedding-dress -- the wife to be --

'Then why were you so mollyish

As not to insist on him for me!'

The mother, amazed: 'Why, dearest one,

Because you pleaded for this or none!'

'But Father and you should have stood out strong!

Since then, to my cost, I have lived to find

That you were right and that I was wrong;

This man is a dolt to the one declined....

Ah! -- here he comes with his button-hole rose.

Good God -- I must marry him I suppose!'

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