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The splendour of the bridal retinue, the gay dresses, the spirited horses, the blythesome appearance of the handsome women and gallant gentlemen assembled upon the occasion, had the usual effect upon the minds of the populace.
"And you believe seriously," said Bucklaw, "that he is going to marry the foreign lady we heard of?" "You heard yourself," answered Craigengelt, "what Captain Westenho said about it, and the great preparation made for their blythesome bridal."
Elsie's voice blended with the great words, and turning her lustrous eyes full on my face, she murmured "It's a' bricht and blythesome whaur I'm walkin' noo there's no valley here nor nae glen ava, but the way is fu' o' licht and beauty." Her eyes sought her husband's face: "Oh, Donal'! To think we canna walk this way thegither!
Earlier in his life he had whipped every man who stood in need of that kind of training. Usually of a blythesome nature, he was subject to fits of melancholy, only to be relieved by some sort of physical entanglement with an enemy.
A "blythesome bridal" is a traditional Scotch law, not to be lightly broken by either rich or poor. Its non-observance usually implied some sorrowful element, and Mary's national, as well as natural desire, as therefore toward an elaborate festal ceremony. As soon as this intention was put into words their very echo seemed to be a prelude to the coming joy.
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