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Is not Emmy in her bridal-dress a theme well worth a revery? For a similar reason, I must clearly disappoint feminine expectation, by forbearing to descant upon Charles's slight but manly form, and his Grecian beauty, &c., all the better for the tropics, and the trials and the troubles he had passed.
And yet I had counted so firmly and surely upon your love and consent that I had made already the necessary arrangements in order that our wedding might take place to-day. Just look at me, Gentz. Do you not see that I wear a bridal-dress?" "Your beauty is always a splendid bridal-dress for you, Marianne." "Well said! But do you not see a myrtle-wreath, my bridal-wreath, on the table there?
For the dress was yellow with age, and everything she wore had long since lost its lustre. 'I saw, too, says Pip, 'that the bride within the bridal-dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.
After a while, a magnificent bridal-dress of white satin, richly trimmed with lace, together with a thick white veil of the largest size, calculated to envelope her whole person, were brought her by a young damsel, who told her she was engaged to serve her as tire-woman; adding, that "she hoped she would be able to satisfy her ladyship, as she had already served the Countess of Exeter in that capacity."
Have you taken care to provide the myrtle-wreath, the emblem of love, wherewith to deck the bride's bow? O God! O God! May some imperial daughter of this woman suffer worse than death for this!" The count shuddered, and left the room. He had not dared to say that, in truth, her bridal-dress was all that she had described. It had all been chosen.
"She even refuses to have her bridal-dress removed," said the maid; "and I do not know what to do about it. She has uttered no word since first she crossed your threshold; she will not speak." Captain Frazier looked troubled, distressed. Would Gerelda keep her vow?
The girl seemed to interpret her thoughts. "I have come alone," she said, briefly. "Won't you bid me enter?" "That I will, Miss Gerelda!" cried Nurse Henderson, laughing and crying over her. But when she drew her into the house, and took off the long cloak she wore, she was startled beyond expression to see that she wore a bridal-dress all ruined and torn.
Is not Emmy in her bridal-dress a theme well worth a revery? For a similar reason, I must clearly disappoint feminine expectation, by forbearing to descant upon Charles's slight but manly form, and his Grecian beauty, &c., all the better for the tropics, and the trials and the troubles he had passed.
The children troop about her as she is led away to change her bridal-dress for the journey.
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