A DESPOTIC GRANDMOTHER.
The custom which permits English parents to arrange marriages for their children used to be observed in a manner that would have provoked rebellion in a modern household. The following story is told of a relative by Lady Langford, the original of Lady Kewin Thackeray’s ‘ Newcomes :’
Lady Langford had only once seen her cousin, Lord Langford, when be came to visit her grandmother, and the next day the old lady told her she was to marry him. * Very well, grandmamma, but when ?’
‘ I never in my life heard such an impertinent question,’ said the grandmother. • What business is it of yours when you are to marry him ? You will marry him when I tell you. However, whenever you hear me order six horses to the carriage, you may know that you are going to be married.’ And so it was.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XVI, 9 October 1897, Page 511
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143A DESPOTIC GRANDMOTHER. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XVI, 9 October 1897, Page 511
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