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Updated: June 29, 2025
"I am going to ask a particular favor, and you must not refuse." "If I can serve you in any thing, it will be my pleasure to do so," was the ready answer. "You know that I am to be married next month?" "So I have heard," replied Wallingford. "You will stand my groomsman? Don't say no!" He had seen an instant negative in the young man's face.
"Stay a moment," said Major Hardwicke to Captain Anson Anstruther, when Nadine had fled away to prepare for her flitting from the unloved granite fortress. "When do you go over to London, Anstruther?" said Major Hardwicke, for he now nourished a scheme of "social employment" for the brilliant staff officers. He was short only a groomsman.
Wilbur spoke of marriage with a lady of whom he knew absolutely nothing. "Philip," said Mr. Wilbur, "when I marry, I want you to stand up with me to be my groomsman." "If I am in the city, and can afford to buy a dress-suit, I might consent." "Thank you. You are a true friend!" said Mr. Wilbur, squeezing his hand fervently. The two returned to Mr. Wilbur's room and had a chat.
And when the groomsman, according to custom, brought in the great boar's head on a big dish and placed it before the King, so that he might carve it and give everyone a share, the savoury smell was so strong that the King began to sneeze with all his might.
I resided at a quite a long distance from Littleton, and some two years after Arthur's return home, I was surprised by receiving an invitation from him to act as groomsman at his wedding, and the bride was to be Miss Merrill. I know not exactly how the reconciliation took place.
Before entering his own, Commodore Waugh approached that in which the bride and bridegroom were already seated, and into which the groomsman was about to hand the bridesmaid. "Stay, you two, you need not enter just yet," said the old man, "I want to speak with Mr. Shields and his wife, Edith!" Edith put her head forward, eagerly.
Your kind aunt Mary suggested it, but I told her, No. Since you have hurt Dotty so terribly, you cannot be groomsman." "O, mother!" "No, my son. She is unable to perform her part, and you must give up yours. Percy will take your place." In spite of his manliness, Johnny dropped a few tears, which he brushed away with the back of his hand; but his mother, for once in her life, was firm.
The wedding is fixed for the twenty-second; and we want you here at least three weeks before that. Brother Ralph is to be first groomsman; and he especially needs your assistance, as the bride has named you for her first bridesmaid.
Everybody from Pattie and Buck down to little Bettie and Martin Luther! Won't it be lovely? I can show them just how to march, down the road with their baskets in their arms, and Mrs. Pratt, you can come from your house with the Deacon and Mr. Hoover can come out of the back of the store with with, who is going to be his groomsman?" "Lawsy me, I hadn't thought of that," answered the widow.
In a few weeks subsequent the groomsman intended sailing to B , and Agnes would then have an opportunity of returning once more to her home.
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