CHAPTER XLI.
A PARAGRAPH IN THE COUNTY PAPER.
The nature of his injury considered, Captain Lake re-
covered with wonderful regularity and rapidity. In four
weeks he was out rather pale and languid, but still able to
walk without difficulty, leaning on a stick, for ten or fif-
teen minutes at a time. In another fortnight he had made
another great advance, had thrown away his crutch-handled
stick, and recovered flesh and vigor. In a fortnight more
he had grown quite like himself again; and in a very few
weeks more, I read in the same county paper, the follow-
ing to me for a time incredible, and very nearly to this
day amazing, announcement: —
"marriage in high life.
"The auspicious event so interesting to our county,
which we have this day to announce, has been attended
with as little publicity as possible. The contempla-
ted union between Captain Stanley Lake, late of the
Guards, sole surviving son of the late General Williams
Stanley, Stanley Lake, of Plasrhwyn, and the beautiful and
accomplished Miss Brandon, of Brandon Hall, in this
county, was celebrated in the ancestral chapel of Brandon,
in the immediate vicinity of the town of Gylingden, on
yesterday. Although the marriage was understood to be
strictly private — none but the immediate relations of the
bride and bridegroom being present — the bells of Gyling-