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Updated: May 5, 2025
The master thanked them, but either he did not explain or the honest rude voices drowned all mention of the latter fact that Guy would be home to-morrow. All this while, and at the marriage-breakfast likewise, Mr. Halifax kept the same calm demeanour. Once only, when the rest were all gathered round the bride and bridegroom, he said to me: "Phineas, is it done?"
Two ancient turtle-shells, on which was inscribed the legend, 'SOUPS, decorated a glass partition within, enclosing a stuffy alcove, from which a ghastly mockery of a marriage-breakfast spread on a rickety table, warned the terrified traveller.
In the great room the marriage-breakfast was laid out, and in the kitchen Hagen and his Frau were up to their eyes in mystic culinary operations. Minna looked like a rosebud in her pretty low-necked blue dress, and the pastor in his cassock helped to the diversity of colour.
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