Carmichael was attended by Miss Graves
and Miss MacPhun, and Mr. Errol by Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lamb. When Dr.
MacPhun had united them, and spoken a few felicitous words, he retired
to the vestry, and yielded the gown and bands to the new bridegroom,
before whose bar appeared Miss Graves, supported by the two Marjories,
and Mr. Douglas with Mr. Bangs and Mr. Lamb. When little Marjorie saw
herself paired off with Orther Lom, she thought of the Captain's
couplet, and burst into a fit of laughter, which drew down upon the
culprit her cousin's reproof. The Squire had given away his sister, and
Miss Graves was handed over to Mr. Douglas by the doctor, for the reason
that her late lamented father had been a distinguished medical man. When
the wedded pairs passed out of the church, there was great cheering, in
which Mr. Terry and Mr. Bigglethorpe seemed to be rival fuglemen. At
Bridesdale, a pale young man with a long brown beard was reclining on a
couch, and looking eagerly out of a window. His dark blue frock coat,
light grey trousers, and white silk necktie, meant business, too. It
would never do for little Marjorie to be three times a bridesmaid, for
that was unlucky; so Miss MacPhun stood by Marjorie the greater, and
Bangs helped Coristine to his feet.
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