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You would clear my wedding-eve of a great dread if you could, for if this expression of concealed misery came from Gilbertine " "Do you mean," I cried in vehement protest, "that you really are in doubt as to which of these two women uttered the cry which so startled you? That you positively cannot tell whether it was Gilbertine or or " "I cannot; as God lives, I cannot!
Quite apart, on a little table, was the crown and pride of the donas, six white cobweb-like smocks, embroidered, hemistitched, and deshaladoed. Did any Californian bridegroom forget that dainty item he would be repudiated on his wedding-eve. "God of my life!" murmured Valencia, "he has taste as well as gold. And all to go on that round white doll!" There was little envy among the other girls.
'You'd rather come home with me on your wedding-eve, Hazel, wouldn't you? Abel, seeing Hazel's dismayed face, laughed loudly. Edward hated him as only sensitive temperaments can, and was conscience-stricken when he realized the fact. 'Well, Hazel? he asked gently, and created a situation. 'I dunno, said Hazel, awkwardly. A depressed silence fell between them; both were so bitterly disappointed.
"Know then, Sir Fidelis, that upon our wedding-eve I was by her command struck down within the chapel upon the very altar, and by her borne in bonds unto Garthlaxton Keep a present to mine enemy, Duke Ivo " "O, 'tis a lie O dear my lord 'tis lie most foul !" "In witness whereof behold upon my wrists the shameful irons from my dungeon "
A drop is quickly swallowed." "Frightful!" he murmured, the perspiration oozing from his forehead. "What a wedding-eve! And they are laughing down there. Listen to them. I even imagine I hear Gilbertine's voice. Is there unconsciousness in it, or just the hilarity of a distracted mind bent on self-destruction? I cannot tell; the sound conveys no meaning to me."
"Well, I shan't stay away for ever," Monck patted his shoulder and turned away. "I'm not going for a pleasure trip, and the sooner it's over, the better I shall be pleased." He passed into the room with the words, that room in which Stella had sat on her wedding-eve, gazing forth into the night.
Sprightly notes from the song of a cafe chantant hovered on his thin, dry lips. Medallion, amused, yet with a hushed kind of feeling through all his nerves, pushed the Avocat's tumbler till it touched his fingers. The thin fingers twined round it, and once more he came to his feet. He raised the glass. "To " for a minute he got no further "To the wedding-eve!" he said, and sipped the hot wine.
Sprightly notes from the song of a cafe chantant hovered on his thin, dry lips. Medallion, amused, yet with a hushed kind of feeling through all his nerves, pushed the Avocat's tumbler till it touched his fingers. The thin fingers twined round it, and once more he came to his feet. He raised the glass. "To " for a minute he got no further "To the wedding-eve!" he said, and sipped the hot wine.
By midnight everybody was fagged out, and sore with laughing; and, as a rule, drunk: some weepingly, some affectionately, some hilariously, some quarrelsomely, some dead and under the table. Of the ladies, the worst spectacle was a lovely young duchess, whose wedding-eve this was; and indeed she was a spectacle, sure enough.
She, too, plainly had doubts about the wisdom of delay, and turning to her daughter said, 'Now, my dear, do you hear? It was ultimately agreed that the widow and her daughter should go back in a day or two, to await Pierston's arrival on the wedding-eve, immediately after their return.
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