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Updated: June 12, 2025
Meanwhile, a curious sound is heard below, as if many people were rushing upstairs together. Mysterious noises and smothered exclamations are heard in the next room; every one presses thither; the bride-maids and friends run out to see what it is; but it is remarkable that none of them return. Athalie hears her mother scream. Well, she generally screams even when she is talking quietly.
But he was a very personable young man; and so thought the bride-maids and Miss Betsey herself. The mint-master also was pleased with his new son-in-law; especially as he had courted Miss Betsey out of pure love, and had said nothing at all about her portion.
The buttons of his waistcoat were sixpences; and the knees of his small-clothes were buttoned with silver threepences. Thus attired, he sat with great dignity in Grandfather's chair; and, being a portly old gentleman, he completely filled it from elbow to elbow. On the opposite side of the room, between her bride-maids, sat Miss Betsey.
The preparations were hurried on with amazing haste; the day was named, the bride-maids and guests bidden. Miss Hunsden's young lady friends were few and far between, and Mildred Kingsland and the rector's sister and twelve-year-old daughter were to comprise the whole list. The wedding-day dawned a sullen, overcast, threatening December day.
The buttons of his waistcoat were sixpences; and the knees of his smallclothes were buttoned with silver threepences. Thus attired, he sat with great dignity in Grandfather’s chair; and, being a portly old gentleman, he completely filled it from elbow to elbow. On the opposite side of the room, between her bride-maids, sat Miss Betsey.
For bride-maids she had Colonel Carteret's daughters, a brace of harmless young ladies, whose conversation was as stereotyped as a French and English vocabulary, but who dressed well and looked pretty. There was no display of wedding gifts, no ceremonious wedding breakfast. Vixen remembered the wedding feast at her mother's second marriage, and what a dreary ceremonial it had been.
The bride shrieked; the bride-maids echoed the bride in every note of the gamut all save Mollie; and she, like the bridegroom, had recognized the intruder. For, tall and gaunt as one of Macbeth's witches, there stood the woman Miriam! There was a blank pause; every eye fixed on the towering form of the specter-like woman. "I forbid the marriage!" exclaimed Miriam.
Her fear of wine came partly from the recollection of the prohibition in the Koran. "Of course there is real wine. Then the bride-maids and groomsmen throw maize baked in honey over them; that brings luck. It is lovely, I can tell you." Timéa's eyes shone with the prophetic fire of a magnetic dream.
A bride may be pardoned if she is nervous and irritable at the last moment. The witnesses, the bride-maids, are ready, and the bride's father has not yet arrived. Every one was uneasy; only the bridegroom was quite composed. A message had come from the church that the pope was ready and waiting for the bridal pair. Already the bells are ringing, as is the custom at grand weddings.
It had been fixed that the ceremony should be gone through at an early hour, to give time for a little déjeuné afterwards, to which a select party of friends had been invited. We were in church a little before the clock struck eight. Nothing could be more judicious or graceful than the dress of the bride-maids the three charming Miss Foresters on this morning.
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