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It was only a matter of a few minutes after passing the lodge gates until I was ushered into the general living-room and the center of the family life. The master being absent, the ceremony of welcoming to his house a strange guest was performed by his wife. One could see at a glance that she belonged to the old order of things when the seed of a woman's soul seldom had a chance to sprout.
The voice of the widow became choaked, and she made a sign to the chaplain, as if she would have him continue the tale. "Mr de Lacey and his father-in-law fell in the same battle, within a short month of the ceremony," add ed the subdued voice of Merton. "Even you, dearest Madam, never knew the melancholy particulars of their end.
Before breakfast everything was on board, the luncheon was packed away in the little locker, and cushions and extra wrappings were all in place. Breakfast was a hasty ceremony, for the boys were eagerly watching the time, and tide, and breeze, and so would hardly give the rest time to eat. It was not quite eight when they mustered their party on the dock.
The real festivities of a wedding start about three days before the ceremony, with the arrival of the "wedding party," in which party the most responsible position is that of best man. Let us suppose that you are to be the best man at the Roe-Doe nuptials. What are your duties?
But wouldn't it seem the least bit rude to Madame Frabelle? She talks of going away soon, you know. 'Oh, she won't mind, said Bruce decidedly. 'I shouldn't bother about her. We never treat her with ceremony. They both persuaded Edith to run down on the Monday and stay till Wednesday evening at least.
He did not like to forego the ceremony, but he wanted to get back to bed, for a man's legs soon begin to feel chilly in that mountain wind. "He left here not very long ago," said Agnes; "perhaps not more than an hour. I was just preparing to go to bed." "It's a fine thing for him," commented Sergeant Schaefer. "He can relinquish as soon as he gets his papers for ten or twelve thousand dollars.
Perhaps the relation given by Gombeeree, of the cure of his wound, now gave rise to the following superstitious ceremony. While they were talking, Colbee turned suddenly round and asked for some water. I gave him a cupful, which he presented with great seriousness to Yellomundee, as I supposed to drink.
The Duke of Mantua wished to present the King of Spain with certain pictures; his mind was filled with a lively sense of anticipation of future favors to be received which feeling we are told is gratitude. The entire ceremony must be carried out appropriately the poetic unities being fully preserved.
Though receiving the most unremitting attention, both professional and friendly, he was conscious by the time we reached Singapore that he could not long survive. He passed away on the night of December 21st, and was buried next day at sea, with the usual solemn ceremony.
Hawley read it, and spoke more briskly than she would otherwise have done. "Well, we're plumb strangers, but we ain't going to stay that way, because every time you come to town you'll have to stop here; there ain't any other place to stop. And I'm going to start right in calling you Val. We don't use no ceremony with folk's names, out here. Val's a real nice name, short and easy to say.
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