There was no longer any talk of waiting until Christmas Eve, for the
marriage was to take place as soon as possible, and when Grey took
Bessie home to Miss McPherson he startled that good woman with the
announcement that he was to be married the last week in November and
sail at once for Europe, taking his Aunt Hannah with him.
CHAPTER XV.
WEDDING BELLS.
They rang first for Lord Hardy and Augusta Browne, who had intended to
be married in October, but whose wedding was deferred until the second
week in November, because, as Mrs. Rossiter-Browne expressed it,
"Gusty's bridal trouses could not arrive in time from Paris." Everything
pertaining to the young lady's wardrobe was ordered either from London
or Paris, and could Mrs. Browne have done it she would have bought the
Arch of Triumph, and, transporting it to Allington, would have set it up
in front of her house and illuminated it for the occasion. She should
never have another daughter marry an Irish lord, she said, and she meant
"to make a splurge and astonish the natives," and she did.
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