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Updated: April 30, 2025
"You were quite willing that the fiançailles should be made public.... Indeed, you gave me to understand you desired it." "I was quite willing. I did wish it." "Yes.... Thank you, dear; that was what I wanted to hear from you. I understand now what the one clapping pair of hands must mean to the actor who is booed by all the rest of the audience. Good-bye, dear."
Pretyman had sued for and obtained the promise of her hand differed in no important particular from those which ordinarily attend the fiancailles of respectable young persons in Troy; and for twelve years his courtship ran an even course. "After this," asserted Miss Cox, "his attentions cooled.
It would be bad enough to have to go through the usual period of formal fiançailles of the sort I have always been brought up to expect but to endure being made love to by Augustus Gurrage! That was enough to daunt the stoutest heart. However, having agreed to obey grandmamma, I could not argue. I only waited for directions. There was a pause, not agreeable to any of us, and then grandmamma spoke.
The agreement, binding Malcolm to accept a stated number of crowns in instalments, as the value of Esclairmonde's lands, under the guarantee of the Duke of Burgundy and King James of Scotland, had all been long ago signed, sealed, and secured; and there was nothing to prevent the fiancailles, or espousals, from taking place at once.
This month of my fiançailles has been nothing agreeable to recall. Indeed, I should not have been able to go through with it only the blue mark has so often appeared round grandmamma's mouth, especially when Augustus and I have had trifling differences of opinion. Long years ago, one summer we spent at Versailles when I was a child, I remember an incident.
The excitement had made Monsieur Dubois' collar quite give way, and he looked a dirtier and more pitiable object than usual. Such an affair the "Dîner des fiançailles!"
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