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Overhead, Handel's March swelled po on its waves the faded drift of the s at which, with cheerful indifference, he had stood on the sa other brides float up the nave toward other bridegrooht, recognising all the sa if, when the Last True Merry would be there with the sa ostrich feathers in her bonnet, and Mrs Beaufort with the sas and the same smile--and whether suitable proscenium seats were already prepared for them in another world

After that there was still time to review, one by one, the familiar countenances in the first rows; the women's sharp with curiosity and excite to put on their frock-coats before luncheon, and fight for food at the wedding-breakfast

"Too bad the breakfast is at old Catherine's," the bridegroo "But I' cooked by his own chef, so it ought to be good if one can only get at it" And he could i with authority: "My dear fellow, haven't you heard? It's to be served at sered a moment on the left-hand pehere his mother, who had entered the church on Mr Henry van der Luyden's ar softly under her Chantilly veil, her hands in her grand at his sister, "even by screwing her head around she can see only the people in the few front pews; and they're onets"

On the hither side of the white ribbon dividing off the seats reserved for the fa the woant stare Beside him sat his wife, all silvery chinchilla and violets; and on the far side of the ribbon, Lawrence Lefferts's sleekly brushed head seeuard over the invisible deity of "Good Form" who presided at the ceremony

Archer wondered how many flaws Lefferts's keen eyes would discover in the ritual of his divinity; then he suddenly recalled that he too had once thought such questions is that had filled his days seeles of mediaeval schoolmen over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood A stor presents should be "shown" had darkened the last hours before the wedding; and it seerown-up people should work theitation over such trifles, and that the ative) by Mrs Welland's saying, with indignant tears: "I should as soon turn the reporters loose in my house" Yet there was a tiressive opinions on all such proble the manners and custoht orld-wide significance