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The table had a great display of
chrysanthemums, and there was orange blossom in the significant place
and a wonderful cake. We also circulated upwards of a score of wedges
of that accompanied by silver-printed cards in which Marion's name of
Ramboat was stricken out by an arrow in favour of Ponderevo. We had a
little rally of Marion's relations, and several friends and friends'
friends from Smithie's appeared in the church and drifted vestry-ward.
I produced my aunt and uncle a select group of two. The effect in that
shabby little house was one of exhilarating congestion. The side-board,
in which lived the table-cloth and the "Apartments" card, was used for
a display of the presents, eked out by the unused balance of the
silver-printed cards.
Marion wore the white raiment of a bride, white silk and satin, that did
not suit her, that made her seem large and strange to me; she obtruded
bows and unfamiliar contours. She went through all this strange ritual
of an English wedding with a sacramental gravity that I was altogether
too young and egotistical to comprehend.


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