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Updated: May 11, 2025
She sat alone in Miss Bowen's dressing-room, playing with the orange-wreath. Her face wore a thoughtful, sickly, sad look, but the moment she heard some one at the door this expression vanished. "So, my dear, you have a rather unconscionable bridegroom, Mrs. Thornycroft tells me. He has been here already." Suddenly all that had happened recurred to Agatha.
And sighing deeply, the king turned again to the letter. "Poor, miserable children, why should I not make them happy? is it impossible to forget prejudice for once, and to allow these two beings to be happy in their own way? So strange a thing is the heart of a woman, that she prefers an orange-wreath to a crown!
It fitted admirably, and nothing could have been fairer than the round, chubby arms and plump, well-shaped shoulders which the shortcomings of the dress showed to good advantage. Now the lace over-skirt now the berthe and then the veil, with the orange-wreath twined among the flowing curls, and Rosamond was dressed at last.
Surely not the sight of the funeral train, nor of the urn crowned with cypress, of nothing which is associated with death or weakness in any shape; but the sight of gayest festivals, or the paraphernalia of palace-halls, the vision of some youthful maiden of transcendent beauty crowned with an orange-wreath, within hearing of marriage-bells and the whisperings of holy love, or the aspirations of the dance and the endless breathings of triumphant music.
'Give him some clothes this time. 'Certainly a veil and an orange-wreath, because he's been married. 'Gad, that's clever enough! said Torpenhow over his shoulder, as Dick brought out of the paper with three twirls of the brush a very fat back and labouring shoulder pressed against stone.
Her orange-wreath is twined with bay, And on the blood-red battle-field We'll celebrate our wedding-day. Trara! trara! No priest is there To bless the rites, No "
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