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bereavement; when Sir Astley Cooper, having been 

 called in, recommended sea air. This was immediately 

 attended to, and both mother and daughter repaired to 

 Briahton. After remaining three or four months without 

 reaping any apparent benefit, the latter playfully said, 

 " AVhy not consult my physician?" This leading to 

 farther exjDlanation, I was in the course of a short time 

 reinstated in the good graces of the mother, with whom 

 I had always been a favourite. 



The most important occurrence in a man's life, or 

 woman's either, is matrimony : therefore, I trust I shall 

 not be thought diverging or travelling far out of my 

 course by thus relating the circumstances Avhich pre- 

 ceded my again entering into that holy state. 



The ceremony took place at the Abbey church, Avhere 

 we received the con":ratulations of not onlv our own 

 immediate circle, but also of many of the inhabitants, 

 who, I believe, Avere sincere in testifying their joy on the 

 occasion ; and, after visiting Windsor Castle and other 

 places in our Avedding trip, we took possession of our 

 new abode at Ely. This, though not quite on so large 

 a scale as my first establishment — I had so tutored my 

 mind as to regard it equally as conducive to the domestic 

 happiness and comfort I was desirous to renew — in the 

 enjoyment of which I included my two children — who, 

 arriving from school, helped to form our family circle. 



Now, in Ely, as in all other Cathedral toAvns, the 

 distinction between the clergy and laity was almost as 

 strongly marked as in the days of abbots and monks. 

 The richly-beneficed prebends, w^alled round in their 

 cloisters or college, as it is now termed, cut themselves 



