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416 A BBIDE AND BBIDEGKOOM.
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amount of eagerness ; and I confess to have looked out of the window anything likewise but the , with whirl much of a bri interest ht , but silk was dress too late entering to see a
carriage . ggreen voice " She to a was low married mysterious in whisper it" said . my neighbour , sinking her
" Indeed !!! " replied I , throwing into my tones what I humbly considered the requisite degree of amazement .
if I The may hel so m express et was solemnl it ; the y wearer nodded adding with , an " They affirmative are Chichester accent ,
people . " " Chichester people , " said I , then why in the world should they come to be married in Lewes ?"
mysterious " She'd an nod uncl . e here , " said my companion , with another
no I further failed to exp see lanation the necessary ; and for connexion the ensuing of ideas quarter , but of received an hour
my mind was occupied by reflections on the intense interest taken by all the world in so very common an event as a wedding .
A afraid Bride to in her how new attire hundreds is seen by of collective thousands Eng of land times , I in am a
say many nearl life— y -vide everybod the reports is m of arried the Reg or hopes istrar General to be m . arried Every or bod regrets y , or
being married , or y , sternly refuses , to be married ; and , yet people continue , and will continue to the end of the chapter to gaze
at weddings and at bridal couples with a singularly ardent interest spective . condolence Is it sympath with y with their their inevitable joyful griefs prospects ? , Is or it pro in
accordance with that amiable mot of la Rochfaucauld , conrecurring cerning " delusion the misfortunes that here of indeed our best is the friends commencement , " or an of ever a
golden age ? Qui sait / It is according to the temperament and the experience of the spectator .
At Newhaven , where the train stopped , and the few passengers for the Dieppe boat alihtedthe bridal pair were soon standing
and before _/^ the looked luggage at her van with g , whither a certain , we tender went hesitation to claim — our he didn own 't ;
know which were her boxes , innocent man ! This young bride , howevera prettybright-looking irl in a straw hatwas
inconceivabl , y moderate , ; for it is a fact g that the united luggage , consisted of two portmanteaux and a bonnet-box .
Newhaven is the most wearisome terminus in England ; and the railway authorities contrive to deposit their victims at
certain fixed hours , while the departure of the boats varies with the tide . On this day there was an interregnum of two
hours ; some people ate sandwiches , others smoked ; the bridal
pair ordered dinner in the hotel , and the writer went out for a
416 A Bbide And Bbidegkoom.
416 A BBIDE AND BBIDEGKOOM .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/56/
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