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Updated: June 19, 2025
We have housewarmings, christenings, and gala days; we keep, if not our own birthdays, those of our children; we are apt to fuss ourselves, if called upon to change our residences, and have, almost all of us, our little state occasions. Mr Harding, had no state occasions.
Christenings and marriages in the church were encouraged, and elaborately celebrated; death alone, though treated with cut-flowers in emblematic devices, refused to lend itself to the cheerful intentions of those who were struggling to render the idea of another and a better world less repulsive.
Still more do we marvel that tender babes ever lived through their cruel winter christenings when it is recorded that the ice had to be broken in the christening bowl.
"Man alone, I almost instinctively knew, as well as by what I had industriously picked up at weddings and christenings, was possessed of the only remedy that could reduce this rebellious disorder; but watched and overlooked as I was, how to come at it was the point, and that, to all appearance, an invincible one; not that I did not rack my brains and invention how at once to elude my mothers vigilance, and procure myself the satisfaction of my impetuous curiosity and longings for this mighty and untasted pleasure.
This is corroberated by some old timber trees, long since upon the spot where the building stood. The extensive parish of Aston takes in the two extremes of Birmingham, which supplies her with more christenings, weddings, and burials, than were, a few years ago, supplied by the whole parish of Birmingham.
When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with the priests groaning around a coffin.
We have since been at other weddings and at christenings and at funerals. The ceremonies are always held in the temples, and are always in the same serious spirit. As the Altrurians are steadfast believers in immortality, there is a kind of solemn elevation in the funeral ceremonies which I cannot give you a real notion of.
New Year's Day at Court The royal tokens A singular audience A proposition Birth of the Princess Christine Public festivities A ballet on horseback The King resolves to humble the Duc de Bouillon Arguments of the Queen Policy of Henry The Court proceeds to Torcy Surrender of Bouillon The sovereigns enter Sedan Rejoicings of the citizens State entry into Paris The High Court of Justice assigns to the ex-Queen Marguerite the county of Auvergne The "Te Deum" Marguerite makes a donation of her recovered estates to the Dauphin Inconsistencies of Marguerite Jealousy of the Queen of Madame de Moret Increasing coldness of the King towards that lady The frail rivals Princely beacons -Indignation of the Queen Narrow escape of the King and Queen Gratitude of the Queen to her preserver Insolent pleasantry of the Marquise de Verneuil A disappointment compensated Marriage of the Duc de Bar The King invites the Duchess of Mantua to become sponsor to the Dauphin, and the Duc de Lorraine to the younger Princess The Mantuan suite Preparations at Notre-Dame The plague in Paris The Court removes to Fontainebleau The royal christenings Increase of the plague Royal disappointments The Duchesse de Nevers Discourtesy of the King Dignity of the Duchess.
Every public holiday is an excuse for the giving of a "baile" or dance, and when holidays are scarce the "baile" is arranged anyhow. So, while elsewhere special occasions are celebrated by banquets, here the rule is to give a dance. Historical anniversaries, political triumphs, religious holidays, weddings, birthdays, christenings: all are celebrated by dances.
She is the watchman's wife, a gentle, flabby woman, with two rooms at her disposal, but preferring to live and sleep with her four children in one, never going into the other except for the christenings and funerals which take place in her family with what I cannot but regard as unnecessary frequency.
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