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"Oh, it'll be lovely!" sighed Sue. "I wish it would begin!" The boys, girls and grown folks were still coming in and taking their seats. The curtain hid the stage. And how the children did wonder what was going on behind that piece of painted canvas! The musicians were just beginning to "tune up," as Uncle Tad said. The ushers were hurrying to and fro, seating the late-comers.
As we stood at the chancel-rail I am afraid that the congregation, largely augmented, by this time, by late-comers for the doctor had spread the news through the village far and wide thought me but a very pale and quiet bridegroom. But the bride's beauty made amends for all. Just the same soft white dress of the afternoon or was it one like it? with no ornaments, no bridal veil.
No doubt the assembled stomachs were impatient; for on the appearance of the register of mortgages who had no defect except that of having married for her money an intolerable old woman, and of perpetrating endless puns, at which he was the first to laugh the gentle murmur by which such late-comers are welcomed arose.
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