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The Alps lured him like the song of the Lorelei, and the wonder was that his body was not left in some mountain crevasse, "the most beautiful and poetic of all burials," he once said. But for him this was not to be, for Fate is fond of irony. The only man who ever braved the full dangers of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado was killed by a suburban train in Chicago while on his wedding-tour.
Then she suddenly had qualms, like those peculiar ladies told of by Robert Louis Stevenson, who turn the Madonna's face to the wall. The couple went to Montpelier on their wedding-tour, to visit Comte's parents. The new wife agreed with the old folks on but one point the marriage should be solemnized by a priest.
This was indeed a topic on which she could dilate. The Rembrandt, it appeared, had come into Mr. Fontage's possession many years ago, while the young couple were on their wedding-tour, and under circumstances so romantic that she made no excuse for relating them in all their parenthetic fulness. Mrs.
Joseph Leavenworth," when she was roused by the bride elect, who passed through the room with a lamp and a shawl in her hand. "What time is it, and where are you going, dear?" she asked, dozily wondering if the carriage for the wedding-tour was at the door so soon. "It's only nine, and I am going for a sail, Aunt Pen."
Nature is a trickster, and she spread her net and caught the Highland maid and the Lowland laddie, and bound them with green withes as is her wont. So they were married by the Congregational "meenister," and for a wedding-tour fared forth Westward to fame and fortune. "Out West" then meant York State, and the "Far West" was Ohio.
Ingelow, will be under double obligation, because you will have promised to love, honor and obey twice." "And we'll go and live out at Harlem, in the dear, romantic old house?" Mollie said, with sparkling eyes. "Yes, if you wish it. I will have it repaired and refurnished immediately, and, while the workmen are about it, we will be enjoying our wedding-tour.
On the wedding-tour in Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset it lasted about seven weeks Monica learnt, among other things less agreeable, that her husband was generous with money. He was anxious she should dress well, though only, as Monica soon discovered, for his own gratification.
Ridley is sincere I have no doubt, and herein lies my great confidence." At the end of a week Blanche returned from her wedding-tour, and was received by her parents with love and tenderness instead of reproaches. These last, besides being utterly useless, would have pushed the young husband away from them and out of the reach of any saving influences it might be in their power to exercise.
When his health was drunk at the breakfast he preached quite a little sermon as he returned thanks, holding his bride's hands in his the while, performing his part in the scene in a manner which no one else would have dared to attempt. Then there was the parting between the mother and daughter, upstairs, before she was taken away for her ten days' wedding-tour to Brighton.
Mann had been to Europe for her wedding-tour, and was thus welcomed home: November 7. BELOVED MARY, Yesterday noon my dear husband came home from the village but a few seconds it seemed even to me after he left me, shining with glad tidings. They were, that the steamer had arrived with you in it! Imagine my joy, for I cannot tell it. You will come and see me, I am sure.
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