CHAPTER XXX

On the way back from the sick mare, Dick paused once to listen to the restless stamp of Mountain Lad and his fellows in the stallion barn. In the quiet air, from somewhere up the hills, came the ringing of a single bell from some grazing animal. A cat's-paw of breeze fanned him with sudden balmy warmth. All the night was balmy with the faint and almost aromatic scent of ripening grain and drying grass. The stallion stamped again, and Dick, with a deep breath and realization that never had he more loved it all, looked up and circled the sky-line where the crests of the mountains blotted the field of stars.

"No, Cato," he mused aloud. "One cannot agree with you. Man does not depart from life as from an inn. He departs as from a dwelling, the one dwelling he will ever know. He departs ... nowhere. It is good night. For him the Noiseless One ... and the dark."

He made as if to start, but once again the stamp of the stallions held him, and the hillside bell rang out. He drew a deep inhalation through his nostrils of the air of balm, and loved it, and loved the fair land of his devising.

"'I looked into time and saw none of me there,'" he quoted, then capped it, smiling, with a second quotation: "'She gat me nine great sons.... The other nine were daughters.'"

Back at the house, he did not immediately go in, but stood a space gazing at the far flung lines of it. Nor, inside, did he immediately go to his own quarters. Instead, he wandered through the silent rooms, across the patios, and along the dim-lit halls. His frame of mind was as of one about to depart on a journey. He pressed on the lights in Paula's fairy patio, and, sitting in an austere Roman seat of marble, smoked a cigarette quite through while he made his plans. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was travelling?
2. Where was Dick coming from?
3. Did he stop?
4. To do what?
5. Listen to what?
6. What was Mountain Lad?
7. Did Dick go into the house?
8. Did he sit down?
9. Where?
10. In what kind of chair?
11. Did he do anything while sitting?
Answer: 1. unknown
2. from the sick mare
3. yes
4. listen
5. the restless stamp of Mountain Lad and his fellows in the stallion bar
6. stallion
7. yes
8. yes
9. Paula's fairy patio
10. Roman seat of marble
11. made his plans

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo. The period was characterized by economic growth, strict social order, isolationist foreign policies, a stable population, "no more wars", and popular enjoyment of arts and culture. The shogunate was officially established in Edo on March 24, 1603, by Tokugawa Ieyasu. The period came to an end with the Meiji Restoration on May 3, 1868, after the fall of Edo.

A revolution took place from the time of the Kamakura shogunate, which existed with the Tenno's court, to the Tokugawa, when the "samurai" became the unchallenged rulers in what historian Edwin O. Reischauer called a "centralized feudal" form of shogunate. Instrumental in the rise of the new-existing bakufu was Tokugawa Ieyasu, the main beneficiary of the achievements of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Already powerful, Ieyasu profited by his transfer to the rich Kanto area. He maintained two million "koku" of land, a new headquarters at Edo, a strategically situated castle town (the future Tokyo), and also had an additional two million "koku" of land and thirty-eight vassals under his control. After Hideyoshi's death, Ieyasu moved quickly to seize control from the Toyotomi family. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Which shogunate ruled Japan between 1603 and 1868?
2. How many regional daimyo did the country have during that period?
3. Was economic growth good then?
4. Were there many wars then?
5. Did the arts and culture flourish?
6. Who established this period?
7. What was the exact date of it's establishment?
8. What was the exact date of the demise of it?
9. What city is now located at the place where there was a castle headquarters in Edo?
10. Was the Kamakura shogunate peaceful?
11. Was Ieyasu's transfer to Kanto beneficial to him?
Answer: 1. Tokugawa
2. 300
3. yes
4. none
5. yes
6. Tokugawa Ieyasu
7. March 24, 1603
8. May 3, 1868
9. Tokyo
10. no
11. yes

(CNN) -- By all accounts, it was a storybook wedding.

Eighty of the bride and groom's closest friends and family watched as the beaming couple exchanged rings under a bridge on New York City's shoreline in Astoria Park.

Except these weren't your run-of-the-mill fairytale nuptials. In Joanna Scutts' storybook, the bride dazzled her husband-to-be in a gold-sequined, boatneck sheath on their wedding day.

"I knew I didn't want a white dress, as it was really important to me to feel like myself at the wedding -- and I never wear white," she said. "I'm a pale-skinned redhead, and any shade of white makes me look dead."

Scutts is one of many brides choosing to walk down the aisle in a nontraditional colorful dress.

In this week's People Magazine, Jessica Biel reveals the custom pink Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown that she wore when she tied the knot with Justin Timberlake in southern Italy on October 19.

Biel certainly isn't the first celebrity to color outside the bridal lines: Reese Witherspoon graced the cover of People Magazine in April 2011 wearing a blush Monique Lhuillier gown for her second marriage; Sarah Jessica Parker famously wore black on her wedding day with Matthew Broderick; and Sofia Coppola married Thomas Mars in August 2011 in a violet Azzedine Alaia dress.

"Brides today want their wedding to be a reflection of their personality -- they're no longer embracing tradition for tradition's sake," said Nicole Sewall, the managing director of BHLDN, Anthropologie's bridal and special occasion brand. "We've seen a lot of brides throw the wedding rules, as we know them, out." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Was there a special event?
2. how many attended?
3. Did the bride wear white?
4. Why not?
5. What color did she choose?
6. Did she have a tan?
7. Where was the ceremony?
8. How was it described?
9. Do a lot of people pick dresses that are not white?
10. Any famous people?
11. Who wore pink?
12. When was she wed?
13. Where?
14. To whom?
15. Who designed a blue gown?
16. Did anyone wear black?
17. Was it her first marriage?
18. Did anyone pick a purple dress?
19. What shade?
20. Who was the groom?
Answer:
1. a wedding
2. Eighty people
3. no
4. she never wears white
5. gold
6. no
7. New York City
8. like a fairytale
9. yes
10. many celebrities
11. Jessica Biel
12. October 19
13. Italy
14. Justin Timberlake
15. Reese Witherspoon
16. Sarah Jessica Parker
17. no
18. Sofia Coppola
19. violet
20. Thomas Mars