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Since everything, in one way or another, was a "cross" to be borne, she did not fail, even in this case, to make it appear that her long-suffering was proof against every trial. Mrs. Olsen returned home beaming. She would have been balked of half her pleasure in this marriage if she had not been allowed to give the wedding party; for wedding-parties were Mrs. Olsen's specialty.
Some of the less well-to-do farmers, and those who live near large towns, give their wedding-parties at a cafe or 'uitspanning. This word means literally a place where the horse is taken out of the shafts, but it is also a restaurant with a garden attached to it, in which there are swings and seesaws, upon which the guests disport themselves during the afternoon, while in the evening a large hall in the building is arranged for the ball, for that is the conclusion of every 'Boeren bruiloft. Very often the ball lasts till the cock-crowing, and then, if the 'Bruiloft houers' are Roman Catholics, it is no uncommon practice first to go to church and 'count their beads' before they disperse on their separate ways to begin the duties of a new day.
"You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." "Where it went?" "Yes." "I know." "Where is it going then?" "To the Cadran-Bleu." "In the first place, it's not in that direction." "Well! to la Rapee." "Or elsewhere." "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." "That's not the point at all.
"Take care, Miss Brandt," she added, stooping to avoid an apple-branch. "Take care? oh, for that branch!" said Miss Brandt, and avoided it as charmingly and coquettishly as if it had been living. "It was very gay," she added, "even more so than wedding-parties commonly are; but this was caused a good deal by Counsellor Bagger." "So!" "Yes, he was very gay ... I was his companion at table. "Ah!"
It seems that only wedding-parties of the first and second classes are entitled to enter by the front-door, to music of the full church orchestra, and to carpets laid down from porch to altar, every detail of pomp and ceremony depending on the price paid. I must say that were I a French bride I should bargain for a wedding of the first class at any sacrifice.
Why, he he, the father, had not even been presented! And the little man's rage was redoubled by the attitude of Madame Chebe, smiling maternally upon one and all in her scarab-hued dress. Furthermore, there were at this, as at almost all wedding-parties, two distinct currents which came together but without mingling. One of the two soon gave place to the other.
Just as I have taken the Arthur Russell group as a type of the people with whom my marriage made me friends, so I shall take as typical two men of high distinction who were friends of my mother-in-law, and whom I saw either at her house or at houses of friends to whom we were bidden through the kindly, old-fashioned institution of wedding-parties. These were Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning.
Why, he he, the father, had not even been presented! And the little man's rage was redoubled by the attitude of Madame Chebe, smiling maternally upon one and all in her scarab-hued dress. Furthermore, there were at this, as at almost all wedding-parties, two distinct currents which came together but without mingling. One of the two soon gave place to the other.
Why, he he, the father, had not even been presented! And the little man's rage was redoubled by the attitude of Madame Chebe, smiling maternally upon one and all in her scarab-hued dress. Furthermore, there were at this, as at almost all wedding-parties, two distinct currents which came together but without mingling. One of the two soon gave place to the other.
They saw a crowd of waiting carriages in the mayor's court-yard; and when they reached the great hall where the civil marriages take place, they found two other wedding-parties impatiently awaiting the mayor's arrival. Ginevra sat down beside Luigi at the end of a long bench; their witnesses remained standing, for want of seats.
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