to the satisfaction of all parties, without the intervention of
lawyers, whom Mr. Trunnion expressly excluded from all share in
the business; making that condition the indispensable preliminary
of the whole agreement. Things being brought to this bearing, Mrs.
Grizzle's heart dilated with joy; her health, which, by the bye,
was never dangerously impaired. she recovered as if by enchantment;
and, a day being fixed for the nuptials, employed the short period
of her celibacy in choosing ornaments for the celebration of her
entrance into the married state.





CHAPTER VIII.




Preparations are made for the Commodore's Wedding, which is delayed
by an Accident that hurried him the Lord knows whither.


The fame of this extraordinary conjunction spread all over the
county; and, on the day appointed for their spousals, the church
was surrounded by an inconceivable multitude. The commodore, to give
a specimen of his gallantry, by the advice of his friend Hatchway,
resolved to appear on horseback on the grand occasion, at the head of
all his male attendants, whom he had rigged with the white shirts
and black caps formerly belonging to his barge's crew; and he