A MARRIAGE STOEY.

Evening Post, Volume XLV, Issue 94, 22 April 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

A MARRIAGE STOEY.

Tlie Berlin papers tell the piteous story of a young bridegroom who has been married against his will. A few days after Christmas he and a lady to whom he was betrothed, accompanied by the bridal party marched along the streets to the office of the civil registrar. On the way, so it seems, the young man saw something in the conduct of the lady at which he was annoyed. When they were standing before the registrar, and the functionary had asked the usual question, whether he would take the spinster N. M. to be his wife? ho cried out in the loudest and most decided tone "No," The lady, the registrar, and the party were astounded and scandalised. But all efforts to get the bridegroom to rolent were vain " Whatever it may cost me," said he, "there shall be no marriage. I have seen and heard such things of my intended bride on our way hither that I determined she should never bo my wife." The bridal pair and their friends then left the office. When they were again in the street, and were about to separate, the compromised lady gave him a bit of her mind. He might readily get another wife, said she, but what man would ever take hor after so open a stigma upon her character. The young man was touched by the argument. It would set matters square, he said, if she would as openfy refuse to take him for her husband. So he proposed that they should go back to tho angry registrar, say they had repented, and ask him to marry them. He would then say " Yes to the registrar's question, whileshe could say "'No." The bridegroom, accordingly, when the registrar asked him if he would take her, replied, " Yea." But when tho registrar asked her she said "Yes" too. The bridegroom in vain complained to the registrar that she had violatod the covenant which they had made. He would not listen, but declared them to be man and wife.