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Time after time the author strikes subtle harmonies which must have delighted Henry James. There is a white marriage in this tale, stipulated in the hymeneal bond. In 1877 Tschaikovsky made a similar agreement with the woman he married. "The Truth About Tristrem Varick" is written with the same restraint which characterizes the style of "Mr.
In one of these were wedding-festivals; and, with a blaze of torchlight, the brides were conducted from their chambers along the streets; while the hymeneal song was loud, and the youths whirled round and round in the giddy dance, to the music of flute and harp; while the women stood at their doors, watching and admiring.
'You'll hardly sleep so well to-night, when you have learned what eyes are upon you. Here are two very pretty detectives who have found out your secret, and entirely by your imprudence and their own cleverness have discovered that you are a pair of betrothed lovers, about to ratify your vows at the hymeneal altar. I assure you I did not tell of you; you betrayed yourselves.
Pao-ch'in likewise made haste to add: Betimes, the hymeneal girdle it moistens. Hsiang-yuen eagerly paired it with: Oft, it freezeth on the kingfisher shoes. Tai-yue once more exclaimed with vehemence: No wind doth blow, but yet there is a rush. Pao-ch'in promptly also smiled, and strung on: No rain lo falls, but still a patter's heard.
She never dreamed of acting up to her own words, so that nobody minded Betty's repeated notices. But on the morning of the day when Miss Tredgold was expected, Betty told nurse that she was about to give a real, earnest notice at last. "I am going," she said. "I go this day month. I march out of this house, and never come back no, not even if a dook was to conduct me to the hymeneal altar."
Marie de Lescure was dressed in white, but her dress was as simple and unadorned as it could be well made; no bride, young, beautiful, and noble was ever prepared for the altar with less costly care, with less attention to the generally acknowledged proprieties of hymeneal decoration. Agatha and Madame de Lescure had in no respect altered their usual attire.
'No hymeneal lights were kindled, he began chanting, pronouncing all the vowels through his nose, giving the syllables 'an, 'en, the nasal sound they have in French; and it was strange to hear this connected speech from his lips: 'No torches ... No, that's not it: "Not vain Corruption's idols frail Not amaranth nor porphyry Rejoiced their hearts ... One thing in them ..." 'That was about us.
It was that delicious season of the year when Nature, breaking from the chilling thraldom of old winter, like a blooming damsel from the tyranny of a sordid old father, threw herself, blushing with ten thousand charms, into the arms of youthful Spring. Every tufted copse and blooming grove resounded with the notes of hymeneal love.
Fifty beautiful youths, in silken robes, carried a basin in each hand; and one of these basins was filled with pieces of gold, the other with precious stones of an inestimable value. Attalus, so long the sport of fortune, and of the Goths, was appointed to lead the chorus of the Hymeneal song; and the degraded emperor might aspire to the praise of a skilful musician.
Besides, my Pelham, it cannot have escaped your observation, that there is little in my present state which promises a long increase of days: the few that remain to me must glide away like their predecessors; and whatever be the infirmities of my body, and the little harassments which, I am led to suspect, do occasionally molest the most fortunate, who link themselves unto the unstable and fluctuating part of creation, which we term women, more especially in an hymeneal capacity whatever these may be, I have my refuge and my comforter in the golden-souled and dreaming Plato, and the sententious wisdom of the less imaginative Seneca.
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