Mrs.
Linwood was forced to yield; and when once her consent was given, mine was supposed to be granted.

She wished the wedding to be consummated in the city, in a style consistent with his splendid fortune, and then our rank in society; and therefore proposed the first month in winter, when they usually took possession of their habitation in town.
He objected to this with all the earnestness of which he was master.

It was sacrilege, he said, to call in a gazing world, to make a mockery of the holiest feelings of the heart, and to crush under an icy mountain of ceremony the spontaneous flowers of nature and of love.

He detested fashionable crowds on any occasion, and most of all on this.

Let it be at Grandison Place, the cradle of his love, in the glorious time of the harvest-moon, that mellow, golden season, when the earth wraps herself as the "Sacred bride of heaven, Worthy the passion of a God." So entirely did I harmonize with him in his preference for Grandison Place, that I was willing the time should be anticipated, for the sake of the retirement and tranquillity secured.
Madge Wildfire had returned to the city, declaring that lovers were the most selfish and insipid people in the world,--that she was tired of flirting with Ursa Major, as she called Mr.Regulus,--tired of teazing Dr.Harlowe,--tired of the country and of herself.
The night before she left, she came to me in quite a subdued mood.
"I am really sorry you are going to be married," she cried.