A Marriage in High Life, Volume I

A Marriage in High Life, Volume I

The following pages, which I now offer to the public, may, perhaps, not attract general interest; they contain merely a few passages in the history of the heart and feelings of an individual placed in singular and trying circumstances; but those who should recognize beneath the feigned name of Lady Fitzhenry, one whom they may remember to have seen in the gay scenes of ivfashionable life, will probably feel some interest in the events which occasioned her first introduction into the world, and her sudden disappearance from it. Towards the end of a London spring, that is to say, about the middle of August, was married by special license, 2at her fathers house in Harley Street, Emmeline Benson to Ernest, Lord Fitzhenry, only son of the Earl of Arlingford. The ceremony was like most others of its kind; the drawing-room was crowded with relations and friends on both sides, dressed in congratulatory smiles, and new bridal finery. Emmelines father, an opulent city merchant and banker, appeared arrayed in a complete new suit for the occasion. The first gloss was not off his coat, which hung stiff upon him, as if not yet reconciled to the homely person to which it was destined to belong, while each separate bright button reflected the collected company. His countenance glowing with happiness, he busied himself in attentions to his guests, provoking, 3by his remarks, those congratulations which flattered his pride and parental fondness; and, with bustling joy, making the necessary preliminary arrangements for the ceremony about to take place, which was to raise his only and beloved child to that elevated situation in life, in which it had ever been the first wish of his heart to see her placed, and which his partial affection thought her so well fitted to grace. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67669
Author: Scott, Lady (Caroline Lucy)
Release Date: Mar 20, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Henry Colburn
Publication Date: 1828
Publisher Country: UK

Contributors

Editor: Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861