off o she she was away from them all she d a come in teu ahead that fourth oh that other was ridden very jealous and so old she got at the bank if there d a bin another she d ha em all a proper sure fifth ive sin run a deal nor that she run away from a field o fourteen two in a flat race once she did she worn t in form to day that s all they go each with a comforting conviction that he has won what the leader writers on bye would call a moral victory at a scene � interior of wedding guests arriving and exchanging airy as t settle down in their places in various states of self consciousness collected at door loud and sustained of feminine whispering policeman on guard at another door to people with a for seeing complete strangers married very sorry ladies but if you re not provided with tickets i can t let you in the people with a c but this is a public place isn t it policeman not feeling competent to argue the point those are my orders the people c depart to guests with pink tickets any of those seats there pink guests attempting to pass a crimson rope which bars the central passage we want to be near the altar � we can t see here in a superior manner the higher seats are set apart for parties with white tickets pink guests to one another indignantly j and after we d sent that girl a bowl too they employ themselves in picking out white guests ought properly to have been remark that it is the most managed wedding they ever saw and bitterly at to the bowl mrs who always comes early to see the people oh at a wedding there ll b a tremendous crush of course they know ev ay look the de have just come in � what a pity it is that eldest girl has such a red nose � she d be quite without it there s you see him everywhere and smiles at him horrid creature and how fat he s getting do you know who that is that s miss of the you know � looks ever so much older by daylight doesn t she i suppose she s not one of the friends by the way have you ever met him � this man the bridegroom i mean oh my dear a perfect horror ten years older than she is and one hears such stories about him in fact it was only his money that � but her people were delighted of course ah she s coming now look how the are all themselves that s the j� he look yellow best man in a whisper to bridegroom pull yourself together old you are looking so bridegroom i y too fact is those farewell are a mistake � i ll never give another mrs now the choir are going down to meet them don t you wish they d invent a new hymn for i m so tired of that one there she is i always think this is such a solemn moment don t j can you see whether it s silk or gloves the are wearing that s her father whose arm she s on they say he but he doesn t count her mother s behind with the hook nose why on earth should cry i don t know � it s all her doing she makes a pale bride doesn t she but white satin would be trying even to a beauty i hear she threw over poor young most why does that tiresome old bishop so i can t hear a word belonging to bride s family to nurse i wonder at that jane taking on herself to cry when she only came fortnight now you and me have got some claim to cr the nurse them kitchen maids can t be expected to know their place or what s required of them h in the general congratulations compliments kisses and bridegroom to best man i say dear boy i look to you to square all these you know which is his mode of the bishop and his assistant in church during the interval mrs very daring of them to be married in may isn t it i knew a girl who was married in may once � and the very first time they gave a dinner party her cook came up drunk soon after the salmon and gave her warning before everybody dreadful wasn t it i suppose you ll go on to the house and see the presents do � going oh you ve seen mine t it is handsome isn t it i was going to get her quite an ordinary one at the stores � but that was when i thought she was only going to be mrs ah there s the wedding march at last here they come bride and bridegroom pass slowly down central passage their friends at hazard several are left unnoticed with their prepared smile wasting its sweetness t the bride s brothers a young ma i rather dressed who has been standing behind mrs the whole time forces his way to the front the y m to himself she shall see me � if she has the courage to meet my eye after her conduct the bride what mr i d no idea you were in town we shall see you presently i hope s he passes on leaving the y m think of all the replies he might have made an old maid peeping in the gallery she has got in as the bridegroom s a character in she every wedding poor things � to think of all the troubles before them at a wedding i bridegroom s friends pretty wedding wasn t it bride s friends 