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She vowed it was done curmudgeonly to vex her, because her uncle hated wedding-presents and had grunted at the exhibition of cups and saucers, and this and that beautiful service, and epergnes and inkstands, mirrors, knives and forks, dressing-cases, and the whole mighty category.
Had I gone, I should only have seen her flushed and nervous, her poor fresh-caught husband looking foolish and superfluous, and an uncomfortable crowd of over-dressed, ill-dressed people, engaged in analyzing her emotions, estimating the value of her wedding-presents, and criticizing each other's toilettes. Mrs.Grey. You're an unfeeling wretch! Grey. Of course I am.
She knows I have no money left to buy wedding-presents," said Mr. Newell astonishingly. Garnett felt his colour deepen: he had a vague sense of standing as the representative of something guilty and enormous, with which he had rashly identified himself. "I don't think you understand," he said. "Mrs.
"I am afraid they are broken to bits. See, this is the largest piece of all. They can't be mended. No, Tante, they were not wedding-presents; they belonged to Gregory and we were very fond of them." "Alas!" said Madame von Marwitz above her chocolate, and on a deeper note. Gregory was convinced that she had known they were not wedding-presents.
Wedding-presents are but a form of loan, which you are expected to pay back, with compound interest at 50 per cent., in 'hospitality, 'entertainment, and your still more precious time. For the givers of wedding-presents there is no more profitable form of investment. But you, be wise, and buy your own. There is a peculiar joy in snubbing irrelevant would-be country visitors.
Musicians played in the south room, which was like a grove with palms. There was a room filled with the wedding-presents, and the glitter of cut glass and silver seemed almost like another musical effect. The wedding was to be at eight o'clock. Everybody was there before that time. Meeks and Henry stood together in the hall by the spiral staircase, which was wound with flowers and vines.
'I say, Pam do you see me in mittens? he said to her in the hall, thrusting out his two splendid hands with a grin. 'And as for that jersey of Alice's why, I should stew to death in it. Oh, I know I can give it to my batman. The fellows tell me you can always get rid of things to your batman. It's like sending your wedding-presents to the pawn-shop.
But Susy's arguments were irrefutable, her ingenuities inexhaustible. Had he ever thought it all out? She asked. No. Well, she had; and would he kindly not interrupt? In the first place, there would be all the wedding-presents. Jewels, and a motor, and a silver dinner service, did she mean? Not a bit of it! She could see he'd never given the question proper thought.
There were few Bibles, but Missals, Breviaries, large choir-books to be laid on the lectern, Graduals and Processionals, are legion. Such things were common wedding-presents, it seems.
"Yes," I answered, carelessly, "Aunt Allen's." So much was well got over. My hope was that Mrs. Harris, who talked well, and was never weary of that sort of well-doing, would keep on her own subjects of interest, to the exclusion of mine. Therefore, when she said pleasantly, en passant, "By the way, Delphine, I see you have taken my advice about wedding-presents.
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