The pastors depressed their mouths, the deacons filled theirs with food to stifle their laughter, and the groom was the subject of flattering raillery.

The groom was a young widower, a merchant of wealth and important commercial connections, a graduate of Elphinstone College, speaks English fluently, and is a favorite with the foreign colony.

What slimy, bold, presumptuous groom is he, Dares with his rude, audacious, hardy chat Thus sever me from sky-bred contemplation? PHANTASMA.

the groom was an avaricious, disobedient slave, and he at once sold me to a troupe of those infamous beggarly priests of Cybele, who cart the Syrian goddess about the public squares to the sound of cymbals and rattles.

That groom on whose shoulder you have your hand now is my real brother; you are no relation to meyou are the son of the faithful old servant whom we buried to-day with my father!" Charles at once asked for proofs and witnesses, and Mackworth took up the tale.

" Every groom is more or less a sporting man, and it is the peculiarity of sporting men to betray astonishment at no eventuality, however startling; therefore Mr. Crop, doing violence to his feelings, moved not a muscle of his countenance.