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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Yes, no bigger than a hand; and just below it is another." "I see; and yet you still propound a riddle. What has that cloud to do with my fate?" "You know the old superstition connected with wedding-days?" "What?" "That as the aspect of the day is, so will the wedded life be." "Ours, then, is full of promise. There has been no fairer day than this," said the young man.
And the merry bells went on ringing as they trooped back to the old man's house. They went in gay carriages, though the distance was but some hundred yards. But brides and bridegrooms cannot walk on their wedding-days in all their gala garments, though it be but a few hundred yards. And then, as they entered the breakfast-room, the old man met them, and blessed them.
"Miss Carman has just reminded me of the superstition about wedding-days, as typical of life." "Oh yes, I remember," said Irene, smiling.
But most of all he gave thought to the look which dwelt in the eyes of my Lord Duke and the woman who was so surely mate and companion as well as wife to him. When, though 'twas even at the simplest moment, each looked at the other, 'twas a heavenly thing plain to see. Upon one of their wedding-days he was at Camylott with them.
No, Caudle, no; it isn't nonsense to keep wedding-days; it isn't a deception on the world; and if it is, how many people do it! I'm sure it's only a proper compliment that a man owes to his wife. Look at the Winkles don't they give a dinner every year? Well, I know, and if they do fight a little in the course of the twelvemonth, that's nothing to do with it.
Bawn, Bawn, you will adore me." "It is too soon to talk of wedding-days," I said. "Not too soon for me," he answered. "I can hardly bear to wait. I would marry you this instant if I could. Will it be in a month's time, Bawn?" "I could never be ready," I said. "Not in a month's time! And how do you suppose I am going to endure even that! I shall talk to Lady St. Leger about it.
This simple fact, however, has been so little understood of lovers, that husbands have, in genuine ignorance of the cruelty they were committing, raped their wives on their wedding night. Judging by what one knows of wedding-days, it could hardly be supposed that there could be a more unpropitious moment for the consummation of marriage.
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