XL 



A sailor's marriage at Villers Titles of nobility A strange vessel Good 

 folk An acceptable gift The Albatross. 



IT will be recollected that Father Lucas had given an 

 invitation for a certain Wednesday, and this had now 

 come. This very day the fisherman's daughter was to 

 be married, and the doctor had promised to be present 

 with his friends at the ceremony. 



Uncle Bob's young guest, who was not himself 

 attached to the old fisher by any tie, was delighted 

 with the prospect of being present he, a Parisian ! 

 at a ceremony so different from one of the kind at 

 Paris. " A sailor's wedding, fancy that ! No doubt it 

 will be a funny affair," but the mocking remarks and 

 ironical commentaries at the tip of his tongue were 

 arrested beforehand by a rather stern glance from the 

 doctor. It must not, however, be supposed that Bene 

 was of a malicious disposition ; it was rather that he 

 was very young, and a little rash and hare-brained. 

 And it was somewhat in this state of mind that he 

 entered the church, and awaited with some curiosity 

 the arrival of the affianced pair and their friends. 



