A WEDDING AT SECOND-HAND.
A curious incident occurred in a Parisian church a short time ago. A wedding was being solemnised, the contracting parties being a lady and gentleman who move in the highest circles of society, while in a corner of the church stood a youthful couple, a mulatto boy and girl. The pair watched the ceremony intently, and copied each movement made by the bride and bridegroom when the priest was making man and wife. As they knelt down so did the other couple kneel, and when the bridgegroom placed the ring on the bride's finger, the young mulatto did likewise, only his ring was of metal and his bride was less fair. At length, when the procession emerged from the church the humble couple followed, looking as if they were quite as much married as their more fortunate brethren. It transpired that such was, indeed, their belief. The two lovers, who are “ models," had no money wherewith to pay the priest or the registrar's Les, so had thought a wedding at second-hand would be just as effectual and cost nothing.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2692, 31 July 1894, Page 3
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183A WEDDING AT SECOND-HAND. Temuka Leader, Issue 2692, 31 July 1894, Page 3
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