t the next morning he walked up the hill
to meet and escort her to school--the school, of course, being the same
Seminary of Miss English.

My story is copied almost entirely from Miss Sally Somervell Mackall's
_Early Days of Washington_, for nothing could improve on that:

Miss Williams' family were much opposed to the marriage, and at one
time the engagement came near being broken. She told Mr. Bodisco
that "her grandmother and everybody else thought he was entirely too
old and ugly." His reply was that she might find someone younger and
better looking, but no one who would love her better than he did.

They were married in June, 1849, at four o'clock in the afternoon,
at her mother's home on Georgetown Heights. Only the immediate
relatives and the bridal party witnessed the ceremony, after which
there was a brilliant reception. The wedding party formed a circle
and just back of them on a sofa sat a row of aged ladies in
lace-trimmed caps, among them her grandmother, Harriot Williams and
her three sisters, Mrs. Benjamin Mackall, Mrs. William Stewart,
senior, and their cousin, Mrs. Leonard Hollyday Johns, senior, all
of whom were between seventy and eighty years of age.

The mariage ceremony was performed by her cousin, Reverend Hollyday
Johns, the second. Her trousseau came from abroad, and her bridal
robe was a marvel of rich white satin and costly lace which fell in
graceful folds around her; the low-cut dress showed to perfection
her lovely white shoulders and neck. On her fair brow and golden
hair was worn a coronet of rarest pearls, the gift of the groom. The
effect was wonderfully brilliant. As her father was not living, her
hand was given in marriage by Henry Clay.

The groom wore his court dress of velvet and lace. All the
bridesmaids, seven in number, were beautiful girls about her own
age. Their gowns were figured white satin, cut low in the neck with
short sleeves and trimmed with blond lace; their hair was simply
dressed without ornaments. The bridesmaids were: her sister Gennie
Williams, Sarah Johns, Jessie Benton, Ellen Carter, Eliza Jane
Wilson, Emily Nichols, Mary Harry, and Helen Morris, daughter of
Commodore Morris. Each bridesmaid was presented with a ring set with
her favorite stone. The groomsmen were Henry Fox, the British
Minister in scarlet court dress; Mr. Dunlop,