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"Yes," said Helena reflectively. "Of course I see that. It's awkward. I suppose you promised and vowed a great many things like one's godmothers and godfathers?" "No, I didn't promise anything except that I would go out with you, make myself useful to you, if I could and help you with foreign languages." "Goody," said Helena. "Do you really know French and German?" The tone was incredulous.
The road, all the way, was carpeted with green rushes, spread upon the ground. Over this road the little infant was borne by one of her godmothers. She was wrapped in a mantle of purple velvet, with a long train appended to it, which was trimmed with ermine, a very costly kind of fur, used in England as a badge of authority.
We are like the princesses in the fairy tales, shut up in the moated tower; only then there were always fairy godmothers to come to the rescue, and beautiful princes in golden chariots. We shall have to wait a long time before any such visitors come tramping along the Kendal high-road. I am sure it sounds melancholy enough to make anyone sorry for us!"
And she was christened in a city church, and the organ pealed, and the godmothers wore rich array, and the poor old father stayed at home and had a slice of christening cake sent by the post. But the years passed on. Saddened and sobered by the discipline of life, aged and worn, her thoughts turned once more to her quiet youth, and when at last a third child "
Martin's child, a girl. A great deal of good plain company. After sitting long, till the church was done, the Parson comes, and then we to christen the child. I was Godfather, and Mrs. Noble, were Godmothers. After the christening comes in the wine and the sweetmeats, and then to prate and tattle, and then very good company they were, and I among them. Here was old Mrs.
Our fathers and mothers and fairy godmothers have to concur. If Geoffrey Barrington has asked you to marry him, it is because he loves you. He does not scatter proposals like calling-cards, as some young men do. In fact, I have never heard of him proposing to anyone before. He does not want you to say 'No', of course.
Few persons well acquainted with France can have failed to observe how fond the lower orders, indeed all classes, are of giving high-sounding names to their children; and it is sometimes truly amusing to notice the strange upset of associations which in consequence jar the auricular nerve, and illustrate the singularly exalted notions of the godfathers and godmothers. "Gustave Adolphe!"
He was unwilling to let me go; and stood, holding me out, with a hand on each of my shoulders, as he had done in my own room. 'Daisy, he said, with a smile 'for though that's not the name your godfathers and godmothers gave you, it's the name I like best to call you by and I wish, I wish, I wish, you could give it to me! 'Why so I can, if I choose, said I.
''Tis a tramp of discovery, sir, to where bog ends and cultivation begins. 'Bequeathed to you exclusively over the head of your elder brother, I understand. Patrick nodded assent. 'But my purse is Philip's, and my house, and my horses. 'Not bequeathed by a member of your family? 'By a distant cousin, chancing to have been one of my godmothers. 'Women do these things, Mr.
It only remains to escort the husband and wife to the godfathers and godmothers. When these putative parents live at a distance, they are escorted by the musicians and all the wedding-party to the limits of the parish. There, there is more dancing by the roadside, and they kiss the bride and groom when they take leave of them.
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