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"Till Georgiana is married," said she to herself, "the commissioner will never let me have peace: if English Clay's breaking off the match gets wind, we are undone; for who will think of a rejected girl, beautiful or fashionable though she be? So the best thing that can be done is to marry her immediately to Petcalf. I will have it so and the wedding-clothes will not have been bought in vain."
Clay, of Clay-hall, piques himself upon having every thing the best of its kind, and in the highest style Happy happy girl!" "Happy happy father, who has got her off his hands!" cried the commissioner. "'Twas my doing 'twas all my doing!" said Mrs. Falconer. "It was, my dear; and how was it brought about?" said Mr. Falconer: "stay one minute from the wedding-clothes, and tell me." Mrs.
Already she thought of the time between as a respite, the "Long day, my Lord!" of those condemned to death. The Dowager saw nothing wrong with the date. They could wander about the Continent leisurely, coming home early in June to prepare Nelly's wedding-clothes. The General, after his first irritation had passed, had brought himself to tell her of his plan about the house.
So Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good gentleman, Mr.
Then she screamed faintly, for Eugene Hautville strode back into the room with a look on his face which she had never seen before. He snatched the silk out of Madelon's hand and thrust it roughly into Dorothy's. "Take it home," he said. "My sister does no work on your wedding-clothes!"
There is no reason in the world why a dressmaker, if she is as rich as a Vanderbilt, should make Ina's wedding-clothes for nothing, and she won't." "Well, I suppose you are right, Anna, but what is to be done? How about Miss Sargent? She was very good." "Miss Sargent, Amy dear!" "Do we own her much, Anna?" "Owe her much? We owe her everything!" "Madame Rogers?" "Madame Rogers!
"Acts of charity towards very poor girls who have no dowry or suitable wedding-clothes are very touching and generous. It is considered a disgrace to the community if a poor girl is not given the opportunity to marry, and a community not only provides a dower, but also seeks for a bridegroom for her.
"What is Margaret making, Kitty?" asked the young fisherman, with one of his arms apparently mislaid somewhere. As Kitty only blushed in reply, the captain doubled himself up as far as he could, standing, and said, with a slap of his leg, "In my country we should call it wedding-clothes. Fact! We should, I do assure you."
She sobbed a little longer from pure inertia of grief; then she raised herself, shaking off Rose's hand. "It's all right," said she; "I needn't have minded; I know you didn't mean anything. It was just the last straw, and when you said that about my wedding-clothes " "Oh, Charlotte, you did speak about them yourself first," Rose said, deprecatingly.
If you supposed them to be words of transient anger, you will know now that they were the sign of an irreversible change. "I think you will fulfil my wish that my bridal chest should be sent to my godfather, who gave it me. It contains my wedding-clothes and the portraits and other relics of my father and mother." She folded the ring inside this letter, and wrote Tito's name outside.
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