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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Mon Dieu, je vous donne mon coeur," "God, I give you my heart;" and then an old nun, bringing some holy water, sprinkled it on our beds to drive away the devil, while we took some and crossed ourselves again. At nine o'clock the bell rung, and all who were awake repeated a prayer, called the offrande; those who were asleep were considered as excused.
At the ceremony of the offrande, Germain, according to custom, placed the treizaine that is to say, thirteen pieces of silver in the hand of his bride, and slipped on her finger a silver ring of a peculiar form, which had existed unchanged for ages, but which has now been replaced by the alliance d'or. We pass over the ceremony of the wedding.
"Every time he comes to see me he brings what he calls an 'offrande'. All these things" she indicated, with a comprehensive sweep of the arm, the Union Jack cushion, the little men mounting ladders inside bottles, the hen sitting on her nest, and the other trumpery gimcracks "all these things are presents from Anastasius. It would hurt him not to see them here when he calls."
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