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One day Teresa went to Pressburg to see how the wedding-garments were getting on all the preparations for the marriage were being made outside the house and as they were not ready, she felt obliged to remain in town all night, and sent Boltay back to guard the house. Hitherto, Fanny had never lain alone in her room.
Agatha slid from her lover's arms, and swiftly passing out at the door, met Emma coming in. The unlucky bridegroom was left to make his own explanation to Mrs. Thornycroft, and how he performed that feat remains a mystery to this day. Solemnly, and much affected, the bride went up-stairs to put on her wedding-garments. Anne Valery had just arrived.
They knew what she wore, and how long she stayed. They knew when Madelon returned her visit; they knew, to remember, in many cases, more details of their daily lives than Burr and Madelon themselves. Madelon had few wedding preparations to make. The wedding-garments which she had stitched with sorrow for her marriage with Lot would serve her now.
And an ancient memorial assures us, that he went to his devotions with his hands and feet tied; either to signify, that he was desirous to do nothing, but by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, or to give himself the same usage which was given to the man in the parable of the gospel; "who dared to appear in the wedding-room, without cloathing himself in wedding-garments."
She wrought a marvellous garland of red roses on Dorothy Fair's green silk, and scarcely left herself time to sleep that she might complete that and her stint of household linen. She had nothing to add to her own wedding-garments. The weeks went past, and the Sunday before the day set for her wedding came again. She had seen Lot but three times in the interval.
They were up early, their heads and nerves none the better for Jack Selby's hospitality of the night before. Frank could eat no breakfast, and he shunned publicity in his wedding-garments, so they remained in the upstairs sitting-room. He stood by the window, drumming his fingers upon the pane, and looking down into Northumberland Avenue.
She forgot all about her old favourite, Arthur Lovell, and set herself to work to expedite that most important matter of the wedding-garments. A man came down express from Howell and James's to Maudesley Abbey, with a bundle of patterns; and silks and velvets, gauzes and laces, and almost every costly fabric that was made, were ordered for Miss Dunbar's equipment.
They will yet see what they have done. The good angel is extinct within me. Wicked demons will now assume their over me. I will have no pity I will revenge myself; that I swear to Moritz!" Her mother rustled in, clothed in her splendid wedding-garments. "Did you send for me, dear Marie?" she whispered. "Yes, mother I beg you to put on my myrtle-wreath."
They did not; but in the course of a month there was a wedding at the brown house of the old Captain, which everybody in the parish was glad of, and was voted without dissent to be just the thing. Miss Roxy, grimly approbative, presided over the preparations, and all the characters of our story appeared, and more, having on their wedding-garments.
She bore herself always with a steady cheerfulness; nobody dreamed that this preparing others for the happiness which she herself had lost was any trial to her. Nobody dreamed that every stitch which she set in wedding-garments took painfully in a piece of her own heart, and that not from envy.
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