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204 ‘. “PRAVELS’ ©
chief, or ribband, or fome piece of money, into her bofom. If
the girl does not wifh to have any correfpondence with her ad-
mirer, fhe gives back the prefents to the mediatrix, who immedi-.
ately conveys the unpleafing intelligence to her employer. It is
‘t6 be obferved, however, that this firft refufal of the prefents is
not deemed a decifive proof of diflike. The lover does not yet
defpair of foftening the heart of his miftrefs: by a repetition of
his attempts he may ftill hope to accomplifh his object. The
pofitive mark of an invincible difapprobation and rejection, and
after which there is no longer any further ufe in negociation, or
room for hope, is, when the young woman, inftead of giving the
box containing the prefent back to the ambafladrefs with her
hands, fhe unloofes the cin@ture that keeps her drefs clofe to her
waift, and lets it fall between her breaft and her fhift down to the’
ground. But if, on the contrary, fhe retains the prefent, then the
young people confider themfelves as engaged to each other, and
nothing but the marriage ceremony 1s wanting in order to confti-
tute them hufband and wife.
On the wedding-day, fome peafant among their neighbours,
with the title of {peaker, or/orator, does the honours of the featt.
This orator 1s generally a perfon who is not only endowed with a
natural talent for fpeaking, but is alfo an improvi/atore; for he 1s
expected to make extempore verfes fuitable to the occafion, or any
incidental circumftances: but the moft curious and interefting
ceremony of all, is that which takes place on the day after the
marriage. All the guefts being aflembled, as on the day of the
ceremony,
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