hat some time should be fixed for your own marriage." To this
the accepted suitor of course assented. "But before we can do that
something must be settled about--money." Tregear when he heard this
became hot all over, and felt that he could not restrain his blushes.
Such must be the feeling of a man when he finds himself compelled to
own to a girl's father that he intends to live upon her money and not
upon his own. "I do not like to be troublesome," continued the Duke,
"or to ask questions which might seem to be impertinent."

"Oh no! Of course I feel my position. I can only say that it was not
because your daughter might probably have money that I first sought
her love."

"It shall be so received. And now-- But perhaps it will be best that
you should arrange all this with my man of business. Mr. Moreton
shall be instructed. Mr. Moreton lives near my place in Barsetshire,
but is now in London. If you will call on him he shall tell you what
I would suggest. I hope you will find that your affairs will be
comfortable. And now as to the time."

Isabel's wedding was declared by the newspapers to have been one of
the most brilliant remembered in the metropolis. There were six
bridesmaids, of whom of course Mary was one,--and of whom poor Lady
Mabel Grex was equally of course not another. Poor Lady Mabel was at
this time with Miss Cassewary at Grex, paying what she believed would
be a last visit to the old family home. Among the others were two
American girls, brought into that august society for the sake of
courtesy rather than of personal love. And there were two other
Palliser girls and a Scotch McCloskie cousin. The breakfast was of
course given by Mr. Boncassen at his house in Brook Street, where the
bridal presents were displayed. And not only were they displayed; but
a list of them, with an approximating statement as to their value,
appeared in one or two of the next day's newspapers;--as to which
terrible sin against good taste neither was Mr. or Mrs. Boncassen
guilty. But in these days, in which such splendid things were done
on so very splendid a scale, a young lady cannot herself lay out
her friends' gifts so as to be properly seen by her friends. Some
well-skilled, well-paid hand is needed even for that, and hence comes
this public information on affairs which should surely be private.
In our grandmothers' time the happy bride's happy mother herself
compounded the cake;--or at any rate the trusted housekeeper.