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1The travellers, then, were promenading, at three o'clock, about the streets of the town built between the banks of the
2Jordan and the spurs of the Wahsatch Range. They saw few or no churches, but the prophet's mansion, the court-house, and
3the arsenal, blue-brick houses with verandas and porches, surrounded by gardens bordered with acacias, palms, and
4locusts. A clay and pebble wall, built in 1853, surrounded the town; and in the principal street were the market and
5several hotels adorned with pavilions. The place did not seem thickly populated. The streets were almost deserted,
6except in the vicinity of the temple, which they only reached after having traversed several quarters surrounded by
7palisades. There were many women, which was easily accounted for by the "peculiar institution" of the Mormons; but it
8must not be supposed that all the Mormons are polygamists. They are free to marry or not, as they please; but it is
9worth noting that it is mainly the female citizens of Utah who are anxious to marry, as, according to the Mormon
10religion, maiden ladies are not admitted to the possession of its highest joys. These poor creatures seemed to be
11neither well off nor happy. Some--the more well-to-do, no doubt--wore short, open, black silk dresses, under a hood or
12modest shawl; others were habited in Indian fashion. Passepartout could not behold without a certain fright these women,
13charged, in groups, with conferring happiness on a single Mormon. His common sense pitied, above all, the husband. It
14seemed to him a terrible thing to have to guide so many wives at once across the vicissitudes of life, and to conduct
15them, as it were, in a body to the Mormon paradise with the prospect of seeing them in the company of the glorious
16Smith, who doubtless was the chief ornament of that delightful place, to all eternity. He felt decidedly repelled from
17such a vocation, and he imagined--perhaps he was mistaken--that the fair ones of Salt Lake City cast rather alarming
18glances on his person. Happily, his stay there was but brief. At four the party found themselves again at the station,
19took their places in the train, and the whistle sounded for starting. Just at the moment, however, that the locomotive
20wheels began to move, cries of "Stop! stop!" were heard. Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. The gentleman who
21uttered the cries was evidently a belated Mormon. He was breathless with running. Happily for him, the station had
22neither gates nor barriers. He rushed along the track, jumped on the rear platform of the train, and fell, exhausted,
23into one of the seats. Passepartout, who had been anxiously watching this amateur gymnast, approached him with lively
24interest, and learned that he had taken flight after an unpleasant domestic scene. When the Mormon had recovered his
25breath, Passepartout ventured to ask him politely how many wives he had; for, from the manner in which he had decamped,
26it might be thought that he had twenty at least. "One, sir," replied the Mormon, raising his arms heavenward --"one, and
27that was enough!"
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