Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 711, August 11, 1877

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Various. Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 711, August 11, 1877

CHARLES KINGSLEY AT HOME

THE LAST OF THE HADDONS. CHAPTER XXXVI. – WAGES

A VISIT TO AMAZONIA

A QUEER CLUE. IN TWO CHAPTERS. – CHAPTER II

THE MONGOOSE

SOME CURIOUS COINCIDENCES

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION IN JAPAN

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After the bride and bridegroom were gone, occurred the first slip in my behaviour. The rest of the company had returned to the house, and I suppose I must have stood in the road – gazing in the direction the carriage had taken, the sound of the distant bells floating faintly towards me in the summer air – so long as to be unconscious of the lapse of time, when gently and lightly a hand was laid upon mine, and it was drawn under Robert Wentworth's arm.

'You are wanted up there, Mary,' he said cheerfully. 'Mrs Tipper does not, I think, find herself quite equal to Mrs Dallas and Mrs Trafford; to say nothing of two discontented bride's-maids, and a father who came here under protest, and was only allowed to perform half the duty he came to perform. You took that out of his hands, you know; the giving away was virtually yours.' Going on to talk amusingly of the incongruous materials which went to make up the wedding-party, and so giving me time to recover my self-command. It was very soon put to the test. There was, to begin with, some pretty banter from Mrs Chichester to parry, when we reached the green terrace, where the guests were sitting, to enjoy the air and lovely view, and from which I suddenly remembered they could see the part of the road where I had been standing.

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'Paris? No; it came from Madame Michaux,' I replied, happily recollecting that Jane had mentioned that name.

'Oh, that is the same thing; isn't it? She charges enormously; but one is quite sure of having just the right thing from her. I suppose you have all your dresses from her now?'

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