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Tembarom, glowing with admiring enthusiasm, thrust out his hand. "Little Ann, shake! " he said. " You've given me the whole show, just like I thought you would. You're just the limit." "Well, a wedding-cake's the next thing after the bride," she answered. Her practical little head had given him the practical lead. The mere wedding-cake opened up vistas.
But Anselmus gave a strange smile and said, "Agafia got away; and, alter the Peace was signed, I received, from her own hands, a beautiful white wedding-cake of her own making." The reticence of Anselmus was proof against every effort to induce him to say anything more concerning this astonishing affair.
"It had all gone off very well yes nobody cried he had a bit of wedding-cake for her, and here was a note, she should hear all about it another time;" yawn, and he shut himself into his own room. That was all Marian obtained by her vigil. You, there was the note, put in with the wedding cards.
But having got the grant, it was a question of now or never for me; so I made arrangements with the army chaplain, who fixed the time and we were duly united. It cost us nothing, for neither the parson nor clerk looked for any fee, neither were we troubled with any wedding-cake, but simply took ourselves off for a day's merrymaking.
Barry noticed that the walls of the German bakery next door were badly singed, that one show-window was cracked across, and that the frosted wedding-cake inside stood in a pool of dirty water. He was presently aware that someone was telling him that nobody was to blame. Details were volunteered, and he listened quietly, like a dispassionate onlooker.
It's not quite what I should have liked to have done for my Bessy though. But times are changed, as I said just now. The conversation ended there for the time. Wedding-cake and wine were brought in, and it was Molly's duty to serve them out. But those last words of Mrs. Goodenough's tingled in her ears, and she tried to interpret them to her own satisfaction in any way but the obvious one.
I suppose your principles don't preclude a wedding-cake?" "On the contrary, they include a great deal of wedding-cake. I want to send a box to everybody in Burnet, all the poor people, I mean, and the old people and the children at the Home and those forlorn creatures at the poor-house and all papa's patients." "But, Katy, that will cost a lot," objected the thrifty Clover.
Blanche's letter recorded sundry scattered particulars, as to how well the rowan-trimmed tulle dresses looked how every one was packed into the carriages for the long drive how there had been a triumphal arch erected over the Bluepost Bridge itself, and Annaple nearly choked with laughing at the appropriateness how, to her delight, a shower began, and the procession out of the church actually cried out for umbrellas how papa, when performing the ceremony, could not recollect that the bride's proper name was Annabella, and would dictate it as Anna-Maria, Sir John correcting him each time sotto voce how Basil and little Hilda Delmar walked together and 'looked like a couple of ducks, which, it was to be hoped, was to be taken metaphorically how dreadfully hard the ice on the wedding-cake was, so that when Annaple tried to cut it the knife slipped and a little white dove flew away and hit May, which everyone said was a grand omen that she would be the next bride, while of course Annaple was perfectly helpless with mirth.
A simple 5lb. wedding-cake can be had for 8s. or 10s., but the larger and more elaborate ones run up to £5 and £8, the ornamental stands being extra. Of course there is practically no limit to expenses if people wish to throw money about. One American wedding cost over a million dollars.
On Sunday afternoons Martha used to sit by the window in Ashford and hold the wooden box which a favorite young brother, who afterward died at sea, had made for her, and she used to take out of it the pretty little box with a gilded cover that had held the piece of wedding-cake, and the small scissors, and the blurred bit of a mirror in its silver case; as for the handkerchief with the narrow lace edge, once in two or three years she sprinkled it as if it were a flower, and spread it out in the sun on the old bleaching-green, and sat near by in the shrubbery to watch lest some bold robin or cherry-bird should seize it and fly away.
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