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Updated: May 14, 2025
"I've been to most everything else, and I would like to see you wed, but I ain't got no clo'es 'cept my hair-ribbons." Mrs. Hubbleston looked at her contemplatively. "My last husband's niece's little girl left a dress here once when she was going home after a visit. She had hardly worn it, but she had outgrown it, and her ma told me to give it away. I had 'most forgotten about it.
Hubbleston, resplendent in a glittering jetted gown, came into the kitchen to see that things were progressing properly. "Ain't you flustered?" asked Amarilly, looking at her in awe. "Land, no, child! I have been married four times before this, you see, so it comes natural. There goes the doorbell. It must be Mr. Jimmels and the minister."
Hubbleston kep' her keerds," Amarilly explained to the family. Meantime the bishop was walking in an opposite direction toward his home, wondering if he should find he was mistaken in his estimate of human nature; and a query arose in his mind as to what he should do with the surplice if it were left on his hands.
But his search was fruitless here as elsewhere, and he went away convinced that Brother Washington had not tampered with the pocket. He went on to the house of the Reverend James Woodville, who had performed the marriage ceremony at the nuptials of Mrs. Jimmels, nee Hubbleston.
I didn't want no pay from him, cause he give us his money when yours and Miss King's was gone, but he says as how it might bring him luck in gittin' her, so I took a quarter of a dollar. "'July 29. Mister Vergil Washington. Reckter Colered Church. 1 doller. Pade. Some one stole his'n off en the clo'es-line, and he only hed one. "'July 31. Widder Hubbleston, 56 Wilkins St. 1 Doller.
The next event for Amarilly was an invitation to attend the wedding of Mrs. Hubbleston, a buxom, bustling widow for whom Mrs. Jenkins washed. In delivering the clothes, Amarilly had come to be on very friendly terms with the big, light-hearted woman, and so she had been asked to assist in the serving of refreshments on the eventful night. "I've never been to a wedding," said Amarilly wistfully.
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