A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

Evening Star, Issue 4315, 26 December 1876, Page 4

A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

Among the recent summer guests at Narraganset Pier (says the 'Providence Herald ') have been a wealthy res>idei.t of Baltimore, his blooming daughter, and a companion, whose office was to stand guard over her young mistress, and intercept any letters that she might send to a young gentleman at the South. Before a fortnight had elapsed a dainty little missive was in the Baltimore mailbag. The young gentleman packed his valise and set out for Rhode Island. The father was forbidden by his physician to bathe in the surf, and his daughter's companion hated salt water, and usually sat on the rocks when her charge donned a bathing-suit. While the happy girl -was in the water her lover suddenly appeared before her, swimming like a duck, and proposed that they should be married the next day in the breakers. She said " Yes." The next noon the lovers, a clergyman, and two witnesses, formed a little group in the surf further out than the other bathers dared to go. The marriage ceremony had to be suspended every few seconds on account of the breakers, and a laughbroke from the'lips of thegirl when the clergyman solemnly gave full opportunity for the forbidding of the banns. Everybody noticed how gay she was at dinner that day, and her father thought, "She's forgotten that Baltimore up.stait already." A few hourd later he was undeceived. Then i the tempest raged again, bub a lawyer's I cool counsel prevailed. The bridegroom lingered a few days and then went back to Baltimore, where next October tht particulars of the comedy in the surl will reappear in the same characters in the drama of a Grand Wedding before the eves of the world.