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-BIOGRAPHY. ‘55
jin, preceded the male procession, which was headed by
the bridegroom, with a large bouquet of artificial flowers
stuck on his breast, and followed by his groomsmen,
all with smaller bouquets, and by a number of other
people; the other fiddler led the female procession,
which was headed by the bride and her bridemaids.
Each procession walked up a separate flight of stairs to
the upper storey, to the accompaniment of music; and the
fine large hall, with its granite columns and double flight
of stairs, all crowded with people, presented a grand ap-
pearauce. The crowd then entered the dining - room,
where, as soon as the clergyman arrived, my parents and
we children made our entrance, saluting the company.
After the ceremony, my parents, in going up to the
‘newly-married couple to congratulate them, gave the
signal to all the rest to do the same, and then begana
bowing and scraping and curtseyiug that seemed as if it
would never come to an end, and was very amusing to be-
hold. Thereupon my parents sent round wine, cakes, and
sweetmeats, for which the guests returned thanks to us by
innumerable bows and curtseys.
Finally, the whole company marched off and went to the
house of the bride’s parents to eat, drink, and dance. The
festivities often lasted for a whole week.
One of the brides who was dressed and married at
Arsta this autumn had a complexion dark as a gypsy.
While dressed in her bridal costume, and looking at her-
self in the pier-glass in the drawing-room, she said: “T
don’t know what can be the reason that I am so red in the
face! Sure I am that I have done every thing to get
white. Every time I was washing linen at home, I
scrubbed myself with soap-lye, and then laid myself down
beside the linen on the bleaching-ground in the sunshine,
and I have done it many times besides ; but it has been of
no use.” I do not remember whether any of us had the
heart to tell her that she and the linen could not be
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