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Updated: June 29, 2025
The guests knock loudly at the door: after a time a voice asks who they are and what they want. The oldest man answers: "A rose out of the garden," or "A hind out of the thicket." After some debate, first an old woman is brought out, then a younger, then the bridesmaids. They take them all, but want another "A barefoot girl is still there." At last the bride appears.
"Pooh!" said Bent. "We could get married the day after tomorrow if we wanted! Bridesmaids gowns all that sort of tomfoolery, what does it matter?" "It isn't tomfoolery," retorted Lettie. "If I am to be married I should like to be married properly." She got up, with a heightened colour and a little toss of her head, and left the room, and the two men looked at each other.
The millionaire was quite mad about his little fiancee; he was perfectly willing to pay in advance all the expenses for a big, fashionable wedding, with twelve bridesmaids and a wedding-breakfast at Sherry's; he was eager to load her with jewels, and settle a large sum of money upon her, and take her around the world for her honeymoon journey; he loved her little soft tricks of speech, the shy way in which she dropped her eyes, the curve of the simple white dress that fell away from her neck when she leaned towards him; and though she saw him drink and drank with him more than once before her marriage he took excellent care that it was not until several nights afterwards that she found him really drunk; and they must have been married two months before she began to really comprehend what she had done.
The bridesmaids retired and repacked their splendours so that they might come out fresh for other second-rate needs, and with the bridesmaids went the widow.
"We will let the matter rest till we learn what your cousin Elsie Dinsmore thinks about joining you in it." "Yes," said Rosie, "and fortunately we do not need to settle anything more to-day. Maud and Sydney must be consulted before we quite decide on the colour and material of the bridesmaids' dresses." A pause in the conversation upon the veranda was broken by an exclamation from little Ned.
'Why, said the collector, with a rueful face, 'they WILL have four bridesmaids; I'm afraid they'll make it rather theatrical. 'Oh no, not at all, replied Nicholas, with an awkward attempt to convert a laugh into a cough. 'Who may the four be? Miss Snevellicci of course Miss Ledrook 'The the phenomenon, groaned the collector. 'Ha, ha! cried Nicholas.
No, sir, when quite a long time on, we do get married, it shall be in a church in a proper and decent manner. I don't know that I might not be persuaded to make a sacrifice and do without bridesmaids or even a wedding-breakfast, but everything else must be strictly en règle." The next morning at the appointed hour, Cuthbert went up to Montmartre.
By the light of a lamp she read the account, fulsome and feminine, aloud: the line of carriages and motor-cars sweeping from the pike gate between two rows of softly glowing, gently swinging Japanese lanterns, up to the noble old Southern home gleaming like a fairy palace on the top of a little hill; the gay gathering of the gentlefolk of the State; the aisle made through them by two silken white ribbons and leading to the rose-canopied altar; the coming down that aisle of the radiant bride with her flowers, and her bridesmaids with theirs; the eager waiting of the young bridegroom, the bending of two proud, sunny heads close together, and the God-sealed union of their hearts and lives.
Can he not feel the clammy chill of the little hand he takes in his? Why does he not understand the piteous look in the eyes of the girl whose feet are treading so gay a measure? No trapped bird with broken wing was ever more pitiful. While the guests still were making merry, the bride and her bridesmaids went up to the bridal chamber.
The whole place was en fete, with penny flags hanging out of the cottage windows, and streamers tied across the High Street. It all felt so nice, and kind, and homey. There were eight bridesmaids, and we really did look nice, in white chiffon dresses, shepherdess hats wreathed with roses, and long white staves wreathed with the same.
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