ON THM MISSISSIPPI.
And there was no such person. The young sinners fled forfeli
then, and did a very foolish thing : married themselves before an
obscure Justice of the Peace, and got him to antedate the thing,
That did no sort of good. The distant relatives flocked in and exposed
the fraudful date with extreme suddenness and surprising ease and
carried off the fortune, leaving the Johnsons very legitimately, and
legally, and irrevocably chained together in honourable marriage, but
with not so much as a penny to bless themselves withal. Such
are the actual facts; and not all novels have for a base so telling a
situation.