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Updated: October 10, 2025
'As for gratitude, he chuckled, 'zounds! that is a wine all the better for the keeping. Duchess Meg soon forgot this unworthy wedding-gift, such was her rapture in the other, the so august, appurtenances of her new life.
"Why, I can't afford to buy YOU a wedding-gift you'll expect a diamond sunburst or a set of sea- otter. I didn't dress for dinner either; I suppose I should have worn the crown jools." "You're going to wear an apron and help me scorch the dinner," Lorelei laughed. "You COOKING, with a billionaire husband!" Adoree gasped. "Am I dreaming?
She did not speak; but without her answer, whatever it would have been, he knew that he could not leave her; that he must always come back at last, longing for her arms. Ten o'clock struck, and she looked up thoughtfully at the wedding-gift timepiece. "I'm going to bed," she said. "Good night." A dark rush of colour flooded his face. "You really mean " She nodded.
The King was fond of ornamenting his palaces with curious tapestry and jewelry, worthy of the wedding-gift his wife had received from her sister, Queen Marguerite, namely, a silver ewer for perfumes, in the shape of a peacock, the tail set with precious stones.
"So there is a chance for you to call it your own." "For sale! Why do you say that, Anna?" "It's too costly an instrument for me to own. My old piano is a very good one quite good enough for all my purposes." "But this is your husband's wedding-gift, if I remember rightly?" "I know it is; but the gift was too costly a one for a young man whose salary is only a thousand dollars a year."
Then there are the apartments of the queen mothers; Catharine de' Medici, Maria de' Medici, Anne of Austria, and those of Pius VII., a captive at Fontainebleau, In the bedroom of the queen mothers an altar was raised where the Vicar of Christ said mass. The hangings of embroidered satin in this room were a wedding-gift from the city of Lyons to Marie Antoinette.
Then tomorrow morning at ten you will fetch your wedding-gift. But come so soon now to M'sieu' Tarlton's office, and we will have it all as you say, with the red seal and the turn of your fist yes. Well, well, we travel far in the world, and sometimes we see strange things, and no two strange things are alike no; there is only one Macavoy in the world, there was only one Shon McGann.
Just then Ebenstreit von Leuthen drove up in the handsome travelling-carriage, which was a wedding-gift to his wife, and excited the admiration of the numerous street public. Old Trude, in her simple dark Sunday dress, had awaited the appearance of the bridegroom, and went to announce his arrival to the bride.
And now I come to my first trouble, first, and, as it happened, of long standing now; insomuch that, when Laura asked me once, gravely, why I had not made it a vital objection, in the first place, I had not a word to reply, but just rocked. She, Laura, was stitching on some shirts for "him." They were intended as a wedding-gift from herself, and were beautifully made.
He would give, as a wedding-gift to the Tzigana, the most beautiful diamonds in the world, those famous Zilah diamonds, which Prince Joseph had once placed disdainfully upon his hussar's uniform when he charged the Prussian cuirassiers of Ziethen, sure of escaping the sabre cuts, and not losing a single one of the stones during the combat.
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