MARRYING TO AVOID BEING MARRIED.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3106, 11 June 1881, Page 4

MARRYING TO AVOID BEING MARRIED.

Mary Granville, in her " Memoirs," tells this story of the good old time 9: A lady came into Birmingham with a handsome equipage, and '■' desired the landlord of the inn to get her a husband, being determined to marry somebody or other before she left the town." The man bowed, and supposed her lauyship to be in a facetious humour, but being made sensible how much she was in earnest he went out in search of a man that would marry a fine lady without asking questions! After many repulses from poor fellows who were not desperate enough for Bucb a venture, he met with an exciseman, who said he " could not bo in a worse condition than he was," and accordingly went with the inn-keeper, and made a tender of himself, which was all he had to bestow on the lady, who immediately went with him to one who gave thorn a license, and made them man and wife, on which the bride gave her spouse two hundred pounds, and without more delay left the town and the bridegroom to find out who she was or unriddle the strange adventure. Soon after she was gone, two gentlemen came into the town in full pursuit of her; they had traced her so far upon the road, and finding the inn where she had put up, they examined into all tho particulars of her conduct, and on hearing she was married gave over their pursuit and returned back. 'Tis supposed the young lady, in a desperate fit, for fear of being married where Bhe did not like, choose this unaccountable way of preventing it.