with other guests who had come to witness the ceremony,

from the beauties they call 'antiques,' for they are so damaged. A

beauty ought to be perfect, and Kaela was a perfect beauty."

Alfred wept, and mamma wept, and they both wore mourning. The

black dress suited mamma very well, and she wore mourning the longest.

She had also to experience another grief in seeing Alfred marry again,

marry Sophy, who was nothing at all to look at. "He's gone to the very

extreme," said mamma-in-law; "he has gone from the most beautiful to

the ugliest, and he has forgotten his first wife. Men have no