The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 177: what you’re looking at

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154 REYNOLDS’ WORKS settlement, and that he had moreover presented the young bridegroom with a thousand guineas, duly paid over to his account at the bankers’. _ Two young ladies of rank acted as bridesmaids, and an earl undertook to give the bride away, as her father was unable to proceed to the church. The ceremony was sol- emnized at All Souls, in the fashionable quarter of Langham Place, and we must content ourselves with observing that the bride looked ravishingly beautiful as well as sweetly interesting. The wedding-breakfast fulfilled, in its sumptu- ous display of plate and in its profusion of all the choicest delicacies, the intents and wishes of the ostentatious Mr. Armytage; the Duke of Marchmont, faithful to his promise, was amongst the guests, who were described in the news- paper-paragraphs of the following morning as being “ the élite of the fashionable world.’’ When the repast was over, Zoe — having taken an affectionate and tearful leave of her parent — was handed by the bridegroom to the handsome carriage presented to the young couple by the bride’s father, and they set off to spend the honeymoon at some watering- place, where a suitable house had been already engaged for their reception. EORMICLIOO KS (E(0)