many dear friends she had who
were interested in her welfare. Miss Baker wrote to her most
affectionately; and Miss Todd was warm in her congratulations. But
the attention which perhaps surprised her most was a warm letter of
sisterly affection from Mrs Stumfold, in which that lady rejoiced
with an exceeding joy in that the machinations of a certain wolf in
sheep's clothing had been unsuccessful. "My anxiety that you should
not be sacrificed I once before evinced to you," said Mrs Stumfold;
"and within the last two months Mr Stumfold has been at work to put
an end to the scurrilous writings which that wolf in sheep's clothing
has been putting into the newspapers." Then Mrs Stumfold very
particularly desired to be remembered to Sir John Ball, and expressed
a hope that, at some future time, she might have the honour of being
made acquainted with "the worthy baronet."

They were married in the first week in August, and our modern
Griselda went through the ceremony with much grace. That there was
much grace about Sir John Ball, I cannot say; but gentlemen, when
they get married at fifty, are not expected to be graceful.

"There, my Lady Ball," said Mrs Mackenzie, whispering into her
cousin's ear before they left the church; "now my prophecy has come
true; and when we meet in London next spring, you will reward me for
all I have done for you by walking out of a room before me."

But all these honours, and, what was better, all the happiness that
came in her way, Lady Ball accepted thankfully, quietly, and with an
enduring satisfaction, as it became such a woman to do.

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