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A few minutes after I had felt in the pocket of that jacket, you did the same. I had removed the sixth letter, but had left a slip of paper which you looked for eagerly and which also must have dropped out of the pocket-book. It was an uncrossed cheque for a hundred thousand francs, drawn by M. d'Ormeval in your brother's name ... just a little wedding-present ... what we might call pin-money.
"Old lady's in one of her humours, eh?" "No, no! Only she was just talking about balloons you know. She's very much up in arms." "You ought to keep her off balloons. Balloons may be the ruin of her wedding-present to us, my child." "Dick! How can you talk like that? ... It's all very well saying I ought to keep her off balloons. You try to keep her off balloons when once she begins, and see!"
The banker looked straight before him with a forced smile upon his face, that was little more than a nervous contraction of the muscles about the lips. "I will give you something better than my blessing, Laura," he said aloud; "I have given you no wedding-present yet, but I have not forgotten. The gift I mean to present to you will take some time to prepare.
And now, sir, in this little town, I have actually found at last the very thing I seek a girl who is beautiful, virtuous, and can sing; and her I am going to take to wife. So now I want your advice as to what sort of furniture I am to give her as wedding-present." All these words were plainly audible in the adjoining room.
Munsberg gave the name of a dressmaker of whom she shrewdly guessed that she would be amiably ready to talk to a society-page reporter. "That Biker feller," she said, "got things down all wrong. He called fine white satin 'white nun's-veiling, and he left out things. Never said nothing about Miss Lewishon's diamond ring what her grandpa gave her for a wedding-present.
Every one ran out to see what was the matter, and the maid was found picking up Mrs. Morton's silver teapot, the basket-work handle of which had suddenly collapsed under the weight of tea and tea-leaves. The mistress's exclamations and objurgation of the maid for not having discovered its frail condition need not be repeated. It had been a wedding-present, and was her great pride.
It was less than a foot long, sewed up in canvas, sealed in red wax with his father's seal, and directed in his father's hand to "Mrs Angel Clare." "It is a little wedding-present for you, Tess," said he, handing it to her. "How thoughtful they are!" Tess looked a little flustered as she took it. "I think I would rather have you open it, dearest," said she, turning over the parcel.
He made himself smile a little at that. "You mustn't have," he said. "We'll sit down on the davenport over there that Lucille's grandmother gave her for a wedding-present you see how well I remember the news about all the furniture? And we'll talk about it all quietly." "There's nothing to talk about," said Marjorie desperately. She went obediently over to the davenport and sat down by him.
It was a Mercédès, and if it were not Molly Winston's wedding-present Mercédès, it was that Mercédès' twin. But there was a strange mushroom in it. I would have known Molly's mushroom among a thousand. It was small, round, compact, and of a dark cream colour. This mushroom was flatter, wider, more expansive, with an exceedingly slender stem; and in tint it was of a pale silvery grey.
I had spent all my first quarter's allowance on books and a late wedding-present to Hephzibah, and I foolishly could not bring myself to ask Augustus for more. So I sat in the hotel hall after lunch and watched the people passing by. What had seemed a great sum of money to me in my days of poverty now appeared a very meagre allowance, as I had begun to realize what things cost.
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