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MRS. GLADSTONE

Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone drove to Norton Priory, Cheshire, the seat of Sir Richard Brooke, whose daughter. Lady Brabazon, was the bride's best friend, where the honeymoon was spent.

Neither sister had been specially accustomed to the society of highly intellectual or bookish men, and during the engagement neither Gladstone nor Lord Lyttelton, as ardent lovers, had felt the necessity of resorting to the classics when in the company of their fiancees. The young brides, when comparing notes after the honeymoon, confided to one another their dismay that at odd spare moments both husbands 163