Page:Mary Lamb (Gilchrist 1883).djvu/173

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
THE WEDDING.
157

ship merging into the solemnity of marriage was the very occasion to put Lamb into one of his wildest moods; "I had like to have been turned out several times during the ceremony," he confessed to Southey afterwards. "Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. Yet can I read about these ceremonies with pious and proper feelings. The realities of life only seem the mockeries."