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It is possible that Miss Lindsay shared their views, but if so she made no sign, and on the many occasions on which she met Mr. Barrett on her way to and from school greeted him with frank cordiality. Even when he referred to his loneliness, which he did frequently, she made no comment. He went into half-mourning at the end of two months, and a month later bore no outward signs of his loss.
On no account must Caroline be married in half-mourning; I am sure that mother, could she know, would not wish it, and it is odd that Caroline should be so intractably persistent on this point, when she is usually so yielding. April 30. This month has flown on swallow's wings. We are in a great state of excitement I as much as she I cannot quite tell why. He is really coming in ten days, he says.
The conjecture proved false. The next Sunday the Brudenell pew was filled. There was a gentleman and lady, and half-a-dozen girls and boys, all dressed in half-mourning, except one little lady of about ten years old, whose form was enveloped in black bombazine and crape, and whose face, what could be seen of it, was drowned in tears.
You know they were got for half-mourning because of old Sir George Mildmay's papa's uncle's death, and they look quite fresh and nice. I don't think you've grown much, Francie and oh, by-the-bye, I believe there's a tuck that could be let down. 'Yes, said Frances, 'there are little tucks a lot above the hem. 'Then I'll run up and tell Phebe to get them out, yours at least.
She opens wide the eyes which seem eternally full of tears, and in the grayish abiding half-mourning of imperfect cleanliness, in pallid excitement, she claps her hands. Marie and I can hear the furious desperate hammering of Brisbille in his forge, and we begin to laugh as we have not laughed for a long time. At night, before going to sleep, I recall my former democratic fancies.
"Well, it was a chap from the Builder, or I wouldn't have seen him. Can't trifle with a trade paper, you know." He thought: "She's like the rest of them, as jealous as the devil." Then Lois came into the room, hatted and gloved, in half-mourning. She was pale, and appreciably thinner; she looked nervous, weak, and weary.
Naught knew these wedded lovers of the strange reception awaiting them; of the half-mourning, half-rejoicing people, of national flags suddenly veiled in crape, of black funeral-streamers set distractedly amidst gay bridal garlands; of a widowed Queen, broken-hearted and despairing, weeping vainly for the love she had so long misprized, and had learned too late to value, of a Crown resigned, of the lost Majesty and hero of a nation's idolatry; of the death of Ronsard, and the inexplicable disappearance of the famous Socialist leader, Sergius Thord, and of all the strange and tragic history of vanished lives, even to that of Sir Roger de Launay whom no man ever saw again, which it fell to their faithful friend, Heinrich von Glauben to relate, with passionate grief and many tears.
However, the shades of mauve, and all the variants of purple, which are set forth so alluringly in the windows are enough to tempt an anchorite, and no more decided color attracts us, as blues and greens seem crude and startling beside these soft shades, which came in with the half-mourning for King Edward and are still affected by Parisians of good taste.
Drake's departure had left her alone, she unpacked her box, and dressed herself for the evening. She put on a lavender-colored stuff-gown half-mourning for Mrs. Girdlestone; ordered for all the servants, under the admiral's instructions a white muslin apron, and a neat white cap and collar, with ribbons to match the gown.
There were very few at the grave, and I should have been better pleased if there had been none. What claim had they to be there? I have come home alone, and they no doubt are comforting themselves with the reflection that it is all over except the half-mourning. Her death makes me hate them. Mr. Maxwell, our rector, told me when my child was ill to remember that I had no right to her.
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