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With the great marriage-night scene from 'Valentine' thrilling in your mind, how was it possible to think of the prim self-conceit, the pettish temper and mincing airs of that little person in Half Street without irritation? No, no! The unknown, the unforeseen!
I looked upon parlours and bed-closets, kitchens and corridors; they were lighted with the extravagance of a marriage-night, and as tenantless and silent as the cells of Kilchrist The beds were straightened out, the hearths were swept, the floors were scrubbed, on every hand was the evidence of recent business, but the place was relinquished to the ghosts.
The ceremony over, Manetho had retired to his study, and there passed the night, their marriage-night! What words and tones, what twistings of face and body, did those passionless walls see and hear? How the smooth, studious, submissive priest yearned for power to work his will for one day!
At first he put it on the heap that he had turned out of the portmanteaux for destruction. His grim thought had been to top with this strange memorial of his marriage-night, the funeral pyre he had intended to build. But again the spasm of emotion contorted his features. His shoulders shook, and a dry choking sound came from his lips.
Lady Dawn turned to Tabs gently. "If that's the way he feels, then he has. Terry's to be congratulated." "But why on earth should she have wanted to spend her marriage-night in my house?" Tabs questioned. "My house of all inappropriate places! That's what I can't understand. And what could Ann have been doing to consent?
The patient recovered in four weeks, but was still anemic from the loss of blood. Crandall cites instances in which hemorrhage, immediately after coitus of the marriage-night, was so active as to almost cause death. One of his patients was married three weeks previously, and was rapidly becoming exhausted from a constant flowing which started immediately after her first coitus.
The duke on his marriage assumed his wife's family name, Scott; and some years later in 1673 both were created Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh. From this union the family now bearing that title has descended. A great supper was given at Whitehall on the marriage-night, and for many days there were stately festivities held to celebrate the event with becoming magnificence.
Clayton, for the purpose, apparently, of merciful ministry to her condition a piece of self-abnegation, as it seemed, and as she felt it, scarcely to be expected on my blissful marriage-night. "I feel very sorry for you; you suffer so, Mrs. Clayton," I had said, as I drew a chair beside her bed.
Have I not crossed your path with the burning ploughshares of my hatred? Have I not cursed your home, wasted your wealth and made you the laughing-stock of all Vienna?" "You judge yourself with too much severity, Margaret," said the count, mildly. "True we have not been very happy; since this is the first time since our marriage-night, that we are face to face without witnesses.
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