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By the very boldness and openness of her railing against the intended bridegroom, she convinced her brother-in-law that she meant nothing more than talk. Besides, through all her changing varieties of objections, there was one point on which she never varied she never objected to going to Dublin, in September, to buy the wedding-clothes for Dora.
Poor Jules, I expect he will break his heart, and I shall be shocked and disappointed if he does not. Let her take him. He is rich and good-looking; and all those lovely wedding-clothes will not go to waste. Ah! how sorry I am to leave them behind; but it can't be helped. We are off to-morrow for England. I shall not feel safe until the ocean is between us and papa.
His freedom, which he knew was a shame to welcome, galled him for the time worse than a chain, and he felt more injured than if he had loved this girl who had jilted him; for something which was more precious to him than love had been slighted and made for naught. "She does you are mad, Burr Gordon! She was all ready to marry you. She came to me to help on her wedding-clothes.
Mrs Harville, her children, and Captain Benwick, remained with Mr Musgrove and Louisa at Uppercross. Anne's only surprise was, that affairs should be in forwardness enough for Henrietta's wedding-clothes to be talked of. "And a very good living it was," Charles added: "only five-and-twenty miles from Uppercross, and in a very fine country: fine part of Dorsetshire.
To the lady's entire satisfaction, the liveries, the equipages, the diamonds, the wedding-clothes were all bought, and the wedding-day approached. Mrs. Beaumont's rich and fashionable connexions and acquaintance all promised to grace her nuptials. Nothing was talked of but the preparations for Mrs.
No doubt my brother-in-law has made a little money." "A pot of it, if all they say's true." "But all they say isn't true. All they say never is true." "I suppose he's got something?" "Yes, he's got something." "And how is it to be?" "He's given the girl four hundred pounds on the nail," upon this Mr. Juniper turned up his nose, "and fifty pounds for her wedding-clothes."
With these words Susan cast a terrified look all round, and, losing every other feeling in a paroxysm of shame, hid her burning face in her hands, and made a sudden bolt into the house and upstairs to her room, where she was followed and discovered by one of her bridesmaids tearing off her wedding-clothes, and laughing and crying all in a breath. 1st Bridegroom. "Well, Josh, what d'ye think?"
Dosson taking himself off to his daily session in the reading-room of the American bank and Delia the girls had now at their command a landau as massive as the coach of an ambassador driving away to the dressmaker's, a frequent errand, to superintend and urge forward the progress of her sister's wedding-clothes.
She informed me that her youngest daughter was about to be married, and that all her wedding-clothes and all her summer clothes were in that trunk; and as she said this she gave a glance out of the window as if she hoped it might be following her. What would become of them all now, all brand new, she did n't know, nor what would become of her or her daughter.
"I shall have enough to do this year, with an idle scamp of a son, without paying for wedding-clothes. The times are as tight as can be; everybody is being ruined; and I don't believe Lydgate has got a farthing. I shan't give my consent to their marrying. Let 'em wait, as their elders have done before 'em." "Rosamond will take it hard, Vincy, and you know you never could bear to cross her."
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