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Updated: June 23, 2025
They returned home, and, in the afternoon, the young couple, together with James Grey and the bride's-maid, walked out among the glades of Craigieburn wood, a spot rendered classic by the immortal Burns. Philips had gathered some of the wild flowers that sprang among their feet the pale primrose, the fair anemone, and the drooping blue bells of Scotland and wove them into a garland.
"Show him in," said Miss Bond. "He wishes to see you alone, ma'am." "His wife is going to die, and he will want you to marry him!" exclaimed Mabel, heedless of the servant's presence. "Do, dear aunt, and let me be bride's-maid." Sarah Bond changed colour; and then, while stooping to kiss her wayward niece, she called her "a foolish child." Mr.
Beaumont, we should say Lady Hunter, curtsied to him, smiled, and made a sign that the ceremony was finished; but at this instant, to her astonishment, she saw her bride's-maid, Miss Hunter, quit her place, and beheld Captain Lightbody seize her hand, and lead her up towards the altar.
We stayed a good while, in order to see some people married. One couple, with their groomsman and bride's-maid, were sitting within the choir; but when the clergyman was robed and ready, there entered five other couples, each attended by groomsman and bride's-maid.
I do not wish the reader to suppose my mate fancied he was to act in the character of a woman at my nuptials, but simply that he was to act in the character of a bride's-maid. The difficulties which beset him will be best explained by his last remark on this occasion, and with which I shall close this discourse.
"Really and truly. I will be present as bride's-maid, not as bride." Beatrice went home, and Mr. Ingram hastened to the Manor. There was much confusion there. Mrs. Bertram was very ill; she would not see her daughters, she would allow no doctor to be summoned. Mabel was crying in the drawing-room. Catherine was pacing up and down the corridor outside her mother's room. The Rector came.
Well, you shall be my bride's-maid, if the thing takes place." "If. If to the winds! Captain Lightbody, tell my brother No, I'll write myself, and tell him he may come." "How she distresses me! But she is so affectionate, one does not know how to be angry with her. But, my dear, as to naming the day when he may publicly declare himself, I cannot; for, you know, I have to break the affair to Mr.
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