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"Only to think of May Edgerton marrying a fireman!" exclaimed Hal Delancey, in great glee, as the wedding, which passed off as all weddings should, without a cloud upon heart, face, or sky. May blushed and whispered to Marion that if ever there was a benevolent, noble, trustworthy man upon the earth, it was a true-hearted fireman.
On festivals and state occasions they adopt the swallow-tail coat, chimneypot hat, and their accompaniments, displaying all the absurdity of our European fashionable dress. Though now Protestants, they preserve at feasts and weddings the processions and music of the Catholic Church, curiously mixed up with the gongs and dances of the aborigines of the country.
No doubt the garden-party is a troublesome affair, particularly if the refreshments are out-of-doors, but it is very beautiful and very amusing, and worth all the trouble. It is just as pleasant, however, if the table is in-doors. A very sensible reform is now being attempted in the matter of silver weddings.
But then all that you have told me has only to be put before the who is it? magistrates? judges? and then, of course, father will be entirely cleared, and Mr. Mallalieu will be hanged. Windle of course we shall have to put off the wedding?" "Oh, of course!" agreed Bent. "We can't have any weddings until all this business is cleared up." "That'll be so much better," said Lettie.
"I congratulate you, Jenkins, with all my heart," said Dan, grasping the seaman's flipper, and giving it a hearty shake. "So now, I must look out for another best-man. Morel will do for me, I think, and you can have my brother Peter, no doubt. But could we not manage to have both weddings on the same day?" "Impossible," answered the seaman, promptly. "Couldn't wait."
In a few moments she returned to the kitchen for sympathy. "I am so disappointed," she sighed, "but then, I might have expected something would happen. It always does at my weddings." "What is it?" asked Amarilly, apprehensive lest the wedding might be declared off.
That life was then, "on the whole," anything but comfortable and cheery is attested by records and evidence of all kinds, against which the mention of weddings and christenings, of gold-embroidered mantles and robes of silk, in the pages of a court poet will, we apprehend, count for very little, especially as the sufferers do not appear to have solaced themselves with reflections on the sure effects of the recurring seasons.
The wondrousness of the first hour of their journey side by side had become a joyous certitude that always it was to be like this now. "Bertram," began the bride, after a long minute of eloquent silence. "Yes, love." "You know our wedding was very different from most weddings." "Of course it was!" "Yes, but really it was. Now listen." The bride's voice grew tenderly earnest.
The bell of the Immaculate Conception, cast in France a hundred years before, which had tolled for D'Artaguette, and made jubilee over weddings and christenings, and almost lived the life of the people, sent out the alarm cry of smitten metal; and a tinkling appeal from the convent supplemented it.
Therefore she bade Elena wait on fortune, and hinted to her that, if the worst came to the worst, no one need know she had been wedded with the ring to Gerardo. Such weddings, you must know, were binding; but till they had been blessed by the Church, they had not taken the force of a religious sacrament.
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