_One._--Much fatigued from tumbling over silks, &c. Tried on my new _negligée_. Mem. Must not go to the assembly until ten. Country hours will not do here. _Tuesday. One._--Paid so many visits yesterday before the assembly, that I was tired and out of sorts. Mr. ---- danced with Miss Wyndham half the night. Well, to be sure, what taste _some_ people have! She looked downright frightful. Her fortune is a large one; _that_ covers all defects, I suppose. I am mortified, have a bad headache, and wish our stay in town was at an end. I have just heard that Mr. ---- proposed for Miss Wyndham last night. I shall cut her acquaintance most certainly. DECEMBER, 1820. _Leaves from my Mother's Journal._ _Tuesday, Dec. 2._--The boxes containing my _trousseau_ have just arrived. My cousin Annie and I busy unpacking them. Annie to be my bridesmaid. How brilliant her color is to-day: she looks very lovely, and will grace our wedding. Of course, dear Edward is charmed with her, for _my sake_. My wedding-dress is of white lace, gored on the hips, and quite tight down to the knee, where small flowers, headed with thick wadded rolls of white satin, commence. The body is just one finger deep in front, and a little deeper behind. The dress is made low, for the ball on the evening of the wedding; and with it has come a white flowered satin spencer, covered with small white tassels on the front, and with a stiff standing collar, which looks very stylish. My hat is composed of blonde and satin, and has _six_ full ostrich feathers in it, three at each side, the two end ones being very long, so as to fall gracefully on the shoulders. Madame Lion has sent, amongst other things, a blue cloth pelisse, trimmed with sable; the price of it is thirty-five guineas. Edward made Annie try on some of my things to see how he liked them. Strange that it was not _me_ he wished to see them upon! Dear Edward, how thoughtful he is--he made me retire to my room very early, saying I looked fatigued. Annie did not follow me until twelve o'clock, and seemed flushed and slightly agitated on entering the room. She says I look so pale I should wear a little _rouge_. 'Tis a fashion I never yet adopted. _Wednesday, Dec. 3._--Papa and dear Edward all day in the study, closeted with Mr. Grabb, our attorney, arranging about settlements. To-morrow I shall be the happy bride of him whom I adore. Guests arriving all day. I saw Annie coming out of the shrubbery with dear Edward, before the dinner-bell rang. What could they have gone there for? The hour late, too, for walking, and the evening cold and damp. _Twelve o'clock._--Just retired to my room for the night. Take one more peep at my wedding-dress, laid on the sofa, and now retire to dream of the happy morn fast approaching. * * * * *