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Updated: July 24, 2025
'Yes, said she, quite pleased, 'I am quite ready to marry you whenever you like. 'Then, replied Ring, 'let us decide on this day fortnight. And see, I have brought you some stuff to make your wedding-dress of. So saying he gave her a large piece of the most beautiful brocade, all woven over with gold threads, and embroidered with pearls and other jewels.
Had they seized their prey at that moment of shame and despair, they would have secured it, but their vanity or their self-esteem made them wish to wash off the mire they had cast, or to conceal it by such magnificence at the wedding as should outdo Fifth Avenue. The English heiress must have a wedding-dress that would figure in the papers, and, even in the States, be fabulously splendid.
Then she added, after a fresh pause, and in a still severe tone: "But if, father, you believe that you are on the brink of the grave, what sort of heart do you suppose I can have, that you bid me think only of myself, and put on my wedding-dress in the hour of mourning for you?
We much regret that it is contrary to our literary principles to write half, or one third, in French; because the wedding-dress, by far the most important object on this occasion, and certainly one that most engrossed the thoughts of the bride, was one entirely indescribable in English.
And that is how it happened that, on the evening of her wedding-day, young Madame Risler, in her white wedding-dress, gazed with a smile of triumph at the window on the landing which had been the narrow setting of ten years of her life.
The pigeon would sit in one particular place, sunning herself, and puffing out her feathered breast, with all the blue and rose-coloured lights gleaming in the morning rays, cooing softly to herself as she dressed her plumage. Philip fancied that he saw the same colours in a certain piece of shot silk now in the shop; and none other seemed to him so suitable for his darling's wedding-dress.
If any one who may read these pages should inquire why Margery chose blue for her wedding-dress, I may answer that Margery would have been greatly astonished if any one had recommended white. White at this period was not only a mourning colour, but mourning of the very deepest character. No pains were spared to make this a merry wedding, and yet it certainly could not be called a joyous one.
It was Maureen, and I saw that she was very angry. "I didn't believe it when that fool of a Katty told me," she said. "Whoever heard of luck comin' to a bride who wore her wedding-dress before the day? It only needs now for Miss Bawn to go runnin' back for something after she leaves the house a bride. Sure, isn't there misfortune enough without bringin' it on us?
You're going to stay right here, snug in your rug, another two weeks." "Rave on, hon, but I got the nurse engaged for Monday. How's the Van Norder wedding-dress coming?" "Great! That box train you drew up will float down the aisle after her like a white cobweb. It's a knock-out." "Say, won't I be glad to get back in harness!" "You got to take it slow, Mil."
The Doctor looked innocent and helpless, while Miss Prissy, having got him now quite into her power, went on volubly to expatiate on the difficulties overcome in adapting the ancient wedding-dress to its present modern fit.
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