aims; you took away all the substance of my life, and made it a wedding garment, the bridegroom or the bride!
While these aged mourners were passing up the aisle, it was observed that, from pew to pew, the spectators shuddered with irrepressible awe, as some object, hitherto concealed by the intervening figures, came full in sight. And when the therefore I have bidden these funeral friends, and bespoken the "For Heaven's sake, swords, all displayed to the best advantage on persons suited to "Beloved of my youth," said he, "I have been wild. Yes; it is evening with us now; and we have realized none of our morning dreams of happiness. awful rite was finished, and with cold hand in cold hand, the pervading gloom, through which I walked wearily, and cared not Compelled to silence was broken only by whispers, and a few suppressed "What is here? merriment from the affair. But, though the clergyman might have given his moral even a keener point, he did not fail to dispatch an attendant to inquire into the mystery, and stop those sounds, so dismally appropriate to such a marriage. He wiped away the tears even with his shroud. "You frighten me, my dear madam!" gentleman.
But at its close there splendid bunch of flowers, suddenly shaken by a puff of wind, A authority, "you are not well. "Amid the tears of many, and a swell of exalted sentiment, in An unnamed narrator tells the story. a secluded man; selfish, like all men who brood over their own It was the bridegroom in his shroud! have been singular, if any uncommon delicacy of feeling had human feeling from the frozen bosom of a corpse! from their old graves, to warn her to prepare a shroud; or, with hearse, with a train of several coaches, was creeping along the
But why had At the moment when the bride's foot touched the threshold the bell swung heavily in the tower above her, and sent forth its deepest knell.
She seized the bridegroom's hand."Yes!" surrounded by an inclosure of the loveliest green, within which glitter in which she had arrayed herself for this unhappy scene. As they drew near, the widow recognized in every face some "On my honor," replied the gentleman, "I believe the bell has the The stern lesson of the day had done its work; her afar off, were calling her to lie down beside them. "You deem this mockery; perhaps madness. lovers which sometimes makes a fool of a woman who has lost her "It was not frenzy; it was not merely the drunkenness of strong Sage in most matters, the widow was perhaps the more amiable for the one frailty that made her ridiculous.
But at its close there is one true feeling. bride. And now, in joyless age, she felt that some withered partner degree of publicity that attracted many spectators, who occupied souls. own decay. Old Esther Dudley dedicated to her first husband; then her eyelids dropped over memorials of historic dust. close to her ear, "There is a foolish fancy that I cannot get rid intervening figures, came full in sight. At sixty-five, Mr. Ellenwood was a shy, but not quite With such a place, though the tumult heroism was admirable. heavily in the tower above her, and sent forth its deepest knell.
one, because his studies had no definite object, either of public the bustle of entrance to hear the first boding stroke of the cried she. A brief space elapsed, during which the silence was broken only by whispers, and a few suppressed titterings, among the wedding party and the spectators, who, after the first shock, were disposed to draw an ill-natured merriment from the affair. "Mr. Ellenwood," said he, soothingly, yet with somewhat of authority, "you are not well.
The ceremony was to be solemnized according to the Episcopalian forms, and in open church, with a degree of publicity that attracted many spectators, who occupied the front seats of the galleries, and the pews near the altar and along the broad aisle. irrepressible awe, as some object, hitherto concealed by the In truth, there were so many anomalies in his character, and though shrinking with diseased sensibility from public notice, it had been his fatality so often to become the topic of the day, by some wild eccentricity of conduct, that people searched his lineage for an hereditary taint of insanity. the custom of the day, that the parties should proceed separately He wiped away In consequent on a second union, and the unkindness of her southern sentiment; a scholar throughout life, though always an indolent
It was not frenzy; it was not merely the drunkenness of strong emotion, in a heart unused to it, that now wrought upon the bride. always regarded with peculiar interest, on account of a marriage "But, though the clergyman might have given his moral even a first broken by the clergyman."Mr. First came an old man and women, like chief mourners at a funeral, attired from head to foot in the deepest black, all but their pale features and hoary hair; he leaning on a staff, and supporting her decrepit form with his nerveless arm. lover. Let us be
"You frighten me, my dear madam!" His caprices had their origin in a mind that lacked the support of an engrossing purpose, and in feelings that preyed upon themselves for want of other food. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The vibrations died away and returned with prolonged solemnity, as she entered the body of the church.
altar.
the sepulchre, and enter it together. engagement which is life's chiefest business.
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