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The company were filled with dismay and the bride's parents declared that they would never let their daughter go away with such a husband, but the bride herself spoke up and said that as Thakur for some reason had given her such a husband she would cleave to him, and nothing that her relations said could shake her purpose; so when the bridal party set out homewards, she went with them to her husband's house.
They saw King Harry, resplendent in gilded armour "from their own anvil, true English steel," said Edmund, proudly hand to her seat his sister the bride, one of the most beautiful women then in existence, with a lovely and delicate bloom on her fair face and exquisite Plantagenet features.
He looked round the room, and everywhere knew what Guy's taste had prepared for his bride piano, books, prints, similarities to Hollywell, all with a fresh new bridal effect, inexpressibly melancholy.
"He cannot love her," Miss Baker had said, "or he would not neglect her so shamefully. I am sure he does not love her." But there was a man who did love her, who had felt that he could love her from the first moment that he had seen her as an affianced bride: he had not then courted her for himself; for then it was manifest that she both loved and was loved.
On asking the reason, I was told that she was a bride, whom custom compels, for a stated period, to make this humble reverence. There is throughout all the interior of Servia a stout opposition to the nascent lawyer class in Belgrade.
He began to be annoyed with the presence of the clergyman, of Desmond, and Julia, who waited disapprovingly upon the bride, of Marie's mother and the small horde of friends and relations; he began to think, "If only it was over and I had her to myself! In another hour, surely, we'll be away." They had chosen one of the most fashionable seaside resorts as an idyllic honeymoon setting.
Indeed, what can be more provoking, after a dispute with your wife, than to find it is you, and not she, who has been in the wrong? Sir Barnes Newcome politely caused us to understand that the entertainment of which we had just partaken was given in honour of the bride.
They were all so smiling that they could hardly have been recognized as the forlorn creatures who had come to Rosemont early in July. Each woman held in her hand a centrepiece, embroidered in the characteristic work of her country. Mrs. Vereshchagin led the way, because she could speak English a little better than the others, but her English failed her when she came face to face with the bride.
We had been studying one family party after another as the seats filled around us, for the audience collected by families, when, with a little rustle and stir attending her progress, and a whispering behind her as she advanced, the Bride appeared, for she had arrived from Stockholm by our train.
She was one of those whom, encountered in the streets or in society, one might guess to be married, probably a young bride; for thus seen there was about her an air of dignity and of self-possession which suits well with the ideal of chaste youthful matronage; and in the expression of the face there was a pensive thoughtfulness beyond her years.
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