Excerpt from Mrs. Blake, Vol. 1 of 3: A Story of Twenty Years Yet certainly the bright weather. Shed an air of gaiety over the modest pageant of a wedding which took place that mornin g in one of the western suburbs of London. The wedding guests properly so called, who were to cluster round the altar, scarcely amounted to a dozen individuals, but the little church - little because built when the now populous suburb was a mere village - seemed half full of an uninvited company of spectators. This concourse chiefly ...
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Excerpt from Mrs. Blake, Vol. 1 of 3: A Story of Twenty Years Yet certainly the bright weather. Shed an air of gaiety over the modest pageant of a wedding which took place that mornin g in one of the western suburbs of London. The wedding guests properly so called, who were to cluster round the altar, scarcely amounted to a dozen individuals, but the little church - little because built when the now populous suburb was a mere village - seemed half full of an uninvited company of spectators. This concourse chiefly consisted of womankind who might have been called idle, but for their habit of hunting down the days and hours in a ceaseless round of visiting and gos siping; in the performance of which task they had of course heard the day fixed for Mrs. Bendoran's second marriage, in ample time to make up little parties, and pews-full for the occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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