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"I desire no such perilous honor," I replied, smiling; "it were indeed an ill-omen to have a Duke habited all in red." "It is your marriage-dress, Hugo," said Helene; "I will not have you speak against it." Ever since the strain of the scaffold she had not once broke down no, nor wept but only desired to sit very close beside me, touching me sometimes, as if to make sure that I was real.
She wore on that occasion But it will be too much, perhaps, to tell the reader what she wore as Beatrice's bridesmaid, seeing that a couple of pages, at least, must be devoted to her marriage-dress, and seeing, also, that we have only a few pages to finish everything; the list of visitors, the marriage settlements, the dress, and all included.
In fact it did not belong to any one in particular. It is the custom in Norway for each district to have a marriage-dress for general use. The crown, the breastplate, and the belt are public property, and may be hired out by the girls who are about to be married at a few shillings for each occasion.
Then, again, I went through the experiment of the preceding night, and strove to awaken her. "Get up," I said, and yet without willing that she should do so. "Mrs. Raymond is here to show you her marriage-dress, and Mr. Bainrothe calls." "Tell them to let me sleep; don't don't disturb me. I am so happy so peaceful. It is sweet, too, to think that she will be married at last.
No one had been in the house; her marriage-dress was still incomplete her bosom bare, and her head uncovered; a proof that she had been called from the mirror wherein she saw a half-dressed bride, to see a father kill himself by his own hand against her efforts to save him.
Christ's blood and righteousness Shall be the marriage-dress, In which I'll stand At God's right hand Forgiven, And enter rest Among the blest In heaven. Help, Lord, that we may come To thy saints' happy home, Where a thousand years As one day appears, Nor go, Where one day appears As a thousand years For woe.
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