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What sort of a housekeeper will you make?" "And what about you, boasting one? You know nothing but how to gad about and lick your own face. We'll soon see which of us he'll take." And the two girls went on wrangling and wrangling till they began to freeze in good earnest. Suddenly they cried out together, "Devil take these bridegrooms for being so long in coming! You have turned blue all over."
Peter did much for the emancipation of women in Russia, though his personal treatment of them was brutal, and he threatened even Catherine with death it she hesitated to obey his slightest whim. They had been reared in monotonous retirement hitherto, and never saw their bridegrooms till the marriage-day.
Some opulent brides and bridegrooms make it a silver wedding indeed by sending substantial presents to those who started in life with them but have been less fortunate than themselves.
But kings are not always dead, and I daresay as William II. in his cocked hat gazed from the quarter-deck of the Hohenzollern at the marvellous but untenanted Palace of the ancient Bridegrooms of the Sea, he felt that a living lion is better than a dead Doge. And yet it is a strange life, a king's. What an unreal universe of flags and cannons and phrases must monarchs inhabit!
As for the stocks, its fate was now irrevocably sealed. In short, the marriage was concluded, first privately, according to the bridegrooms creed, by a Roman Catholic clergyman, who lived in a town some miles off, and next publicly in the village church of Hazeldean. It was the heartiest rural wedding!
He wanted a marriage license, and he could see no reason why he should not have it. The man with the chuckle he chose to ignore, instinct telling him that haste was needful. The clerk was a slow man who deliberated upon each sentence, each signature. Eager prospective bridegrooms could neither hurry him nor flurry him.
"It's a flat lie to say that bridegrooms get ready early. It's already dinner-time." "What if only one comes?" "You'll have to come another time." "You think he'll look at you?" "Well, he won't take you, anyhow." "Of course he'll take me." "Take you first! It's enough to make any one laugh!"
He knew they were English, that strange, happy, solid, conquering race. Something vibrated in him. He thought of bridegrooms, youth, strength; but it was as the hollow echo of a far-off regret, some vague sunrise of gold over hills of dream. Then a beautiful tenor voice began to sing Schubert's Serenade.
The story of Rhys and Llewelyn Dancing for a twelvemonth British variants Lapse of time among the Siberian Tartars German and Slavonic stories The penalty of curiosity and greed A Lapp tale The mother leaving her child in the mysterious cave Rip van Winkle Eastern variants King Herla The Adalantado of the Seven Cities The Seven Sleepers King Wenzel and the smith Lost brides and bridegrooms The Monk Felix Visits to Paradise A Japanese tale.
Everything was equally easy or equally painful, as one chose to put it in the path he was committed to tread, and he had obeyed the flurried injunctions of his best man as piously as other bridegrooms had obeyed his own, in the days when he had guided them through the same labyrinth. So far he was reasonably sure of having fulfilled all his obligations.
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