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"Grace, my girl!" said her uncle, "I'm glad to see you've got up your spirits again, though you were not to be bride's-maid. Well, I hope you'll be bride soon I'm sure you ought to be and you should think of rewarding that poor Mr. Salisbury, who plagues me to death, whenever he can catch hold of me, about you. He must have our definitive at last, you know, Grace."
She called us 'my dear girls, put her arms round us as we sat in the dark, and chattered without a pause about herself, her governesses, her sister, and her sister's husband. "'A wedding in the house, she observed, 'is very good fun, particularly if you take a principal part in it. I was chief bride's-maid, you know, my dear girls. But I'll tell you the whole affair from the first.
William Browne's, at Richmond Hill, having come to this region to bring his niece, who is to be bride's-maid at the wedding of an American girl.
Ethel begged for dark silks and straw bonnets, and Flora said that she had expected to hear of brown stuff and gray duffle, but owned that they had better omit the ordinary muslin garb in the heart of winter. The baby bride's-maid was, at last, the chief consideration. Margaret suggested how pretty she and Blanche would look in sky-blue merino, trimmed with swan's-down.
And Richard was drawn into talking of his own deeper thoughts, and Margaret had again the comfort of clerical counsel and now from her own most dear brother! So they sat till darkness closed in, when Ethel came down, bringing Gertrude and her great favour, very full of chatter, only not quite sure whether she had been bride, bride's-maid, or bridegroom.
"Going to be married, ma'am! following your ladyship's good example," answered her bride's-maid, flippantly, at the same time springing forward from the detaining grasp, regardless even of the rent she made in her lace dress, she hurried, or was hurried on by Captain Lightbody. "Captain Lightbody!" cried Lady Hunter; but, answering only with a triumphant bow, he passed on with his bride.
All things being arranged thus in the kindest and most convenient manner by this excellent man, and the day being fixed for the marriage of Constance and Mr. Henry, Caroline was asked to be bride's-maid, and the honour of Lady Jane Granville's company was requested.
She now appeared in remarkably good spirits; for her aunt had given her a hint that she thought her out of humour because she had not been permitted to be Miss Broadhurst's bride's-maid, and she was determined to exert herself to dispel this notion.
Bobby and I are going to be bride's-maid and bride's-groom, and we shall walk up the church after the bride. 'I'm sure Master Bobby won't be the bridegroom, said Margot. 'No, she said a page, corrected Bobby. 'What's that, Margot? I thought it was a leaf of a book. 'We shall be all in white, said True. 'Like angels, said Bobby.
Perhaps her aunt guessed that she had touched the true chord of anxiety. The morning brought a cheering account of Margaret; and Mrs. Arnott was to see her directly after breakfast. In the meantime, the firm limbs, blue eyes, and rosy face of Gertrude seemed a fair representation of the little bride's-maid, whom she remembered.
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