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Last Essays of Elia by
Charles Lamb
Witty set of essays, observations on life in Britain in early 1900sThe WeddingI do not know when I have been better pleased than at being invited last week to be present at the wedding of a friend's daughter. I like to make one at these ceremonies, which to us old people give back our youth in a manner, and restore our gayest season, in the remembrance of our own success, or the regrets, scarcely less tender, of our own youthful disappointments, in this point of a settlement.
On these occasions I am sure to be in good-humour for a week or two after, and enjoy a reflected honey-moon. Being without a family, I am flattered with these temporary adoptions into a friend's family; I feel a sort of cousin-hood or uncleship, for the season; I am inducted into degrees of affinity; and, in the participated socialities of the little community, I lay down for a brief while my solitary bachelorship.
I carry this humour so far, that I take it unkindly to be left out, even when a funeral is going on in the house of a dear friend. But to my subject --- The union itself had been long settled, but its celebration had been hitherto deferred, to an almost unreasonable state fo suspense in the lovers, by some invincible prejudices which the bride's father had unhappily contracted upon the subject of the too early marriages of females...CONDITION: Hard Cover pocket sized, later printing, 1926,
gilt edges, light wear to boards but overall vg+ condition, previous
owners name neatly written inside front cover, intact with plate and
tissue.
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