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Updated: July 29, 2025
Dodd" and next moment Edward came into the vestry alone: the sight of him was enough; his brow wet with perspiration, his face black and white with bitter wrath. "Come home, my people," he said sternly: "there will be no wedding here to-day!" The bridesmaids cackled questions at him; he turned his back on them. Mrs. Dodd knew her son's face too well to waste inquiries.
Diantha's the sort of girl that ought to be married in church with bridesmaids and the wedding march and pews full Of folks looking on.
About midnight, home again, harassed and weary, to find the latest accumulation of parcels, and a deluge of letters congratulations, felicitations, acceptances and regrets from bridesmaids and ushers, excuses of tardy tradesmen.
Dodd, with a foot quickened by affection, burst in and caught her half fainting, and laid her weary as old age, and cold as a stone, upon her mother's bosom, and rocked her as in the days of happy childhood never to return, and bedewed the pale face with her own tears. Sampson took the bridesmaids each to her residence, on purpose to leave Edward free.
The hearty old landlord was trying to look very cheerful and unconcerned, but failing signally in the attempt. All the girls were in tears and white muslin, except a select two or three, who were being honoured with a private view of the bride and bridesmaids, upstairs.
Owing to the recent death of the bridegroom's brother and the condition of Mr. Arnott's health the wedding was extremely quiet. Still, in its own way it was as charming as it was happy. All her five sisters acted as Barbara's bridesmaids, and many gathered in that church said they were the most beautiful bevy of maidens that ever had been seen.
"O mother," said she, "you must hurry and get well in time to attend Maria Dole's wedding. I met her going to shop. She wants me to be one of her bridesmaids. Now guess who she is going to marry; but of course you'd never guess for you are not acquainted with the gentleman; so I may as well toll you at once; John Hanford, from the wilds of Minnesota.
Alice suddenly had a vague vision of her own wedding; the beautiful central figure she would certainly look beautiful in her wedding dress! bowing so gracefully; the bridesmaids behind, in her favourite colours, white and pale green; and the tall man beside her.
"The Voice that breathed o'er Eden" had little to do with the magnificence of her attire, or with the brilliancy of the rose-wreathed bridesmaids, young girls of specially selected beauty and elegance who were all more or less disappointed in failing to win the millionaire themselves.
There were six bridesmaids, the Honourable Olivia and Martha Conroy and Miss Evelyn Graham, cousins of the bride, and the Misses Cicely, Joan, and Nancy Clinton, sisters of the bridegroom, who were attired but why go further into these details, which were so fully gone into in the journals already mentioned?
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