... I regularly frequent St. George's$$$ Hanover Square$$$ during the genteel marriage season; and though I have never seen the bridegroom's male friends give way to tears$$$ or the beadles and officiating clergy in any way affected$$$ yet it is not at all uncommon to see women who are not in the least concerned in the operations going on -- old ladies who are long past marrying$$$ stout middle-aged females with plenty of sons and daughters$$$ let alone pretty young creatures in pink bonnets$$$ who are on their promotion$$$ and may naturally taken an interest in the ceremony -- I say it is quite common to see the women present piping$$$ sobbing$$$ sniffling; hiding their little faces in their little useless pocket-handkerchiefs; and heaving$$$ old and young$$$ with emotion.
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