And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold—
would be amply sufficient in its tenderness and truth to guard their future lives from all ‘ills that flesh is heir to,’ and more besides. But their elders knew better. So everything was done with due legal form and security: trustees appointed, and all the rest of it.
The wedding came off triumphantly at St. James’s, Hanover Square. The day, wonderful to relate, was fine; all the surroundings seemed sympathetic. Two tall, handsome Australian cousins came home by the Moldavia, P. & O., just in time to make up the proper number of bridesmaids who walked up the aisle with the impressive dignity proper to the occasion. Half London was there, of course. Every one wanted to see the bridegroom, erroneously reported to have twenty thousand a year, and to have worked as a digger on the field before he ‘made his pile.’ And when Lord Hexham led the Honourable Corisande to the altar, the stately peer and his lovely daughter evoked audible exclamations of approval. Finally, [461] ]as amid the melodious crash of the ‘Wedding March,’ Reggie Banneret and she walked out as wedded pair, the friends of both families, and even mere acquaintances, seemed infected with that mysterious feminine sympathy which at all weddings finds relief in tears.
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