CHAPTER XIX
THE RESULTS
JANE was married in the early autumn.
She didn't have any trousseau or any wedding presents or any bridaltrip. It was a new kind of wedding, because so much about her and herway of looking at life was new to those about her, that even hermarriage had to match it. "My clothes are always in nice order," shesaid to Susan, slightly appalled over the non-existing preparations,"and I love to sew and will make what I need as I need it."
"I don't want any presents," Lorenzo had said decidedly. "I don't wantany one on earth to groan because I'm marrying Jane."
"I don't think much of bridal trips; Matthew and I didn't have one, so Iknow all about them," said Matilda, who now had her standard and neverlowered it for one instant; "those bothers are just about over forsensible people."
So it all fell out in this way. One lovely bright September day, Mr. andMrs. Beamer and Mrs. Susan Ralston walked quietly into the villagechurch and sat down in the front pew. Shortly after the clergyman andthe bride and the groom came in, and the clergyman married the bride tothe groom. Then they all went out together, and the clergyman left themto go home together. A nice cold luncheon was spread at Susan's, and thecat was waiting, scratching hard at his white bow while he did so.
After luncheon Mr. Beamer, his wife, and his wife's sister went off fora journey.
"Think of me traveling!" Susan cried ecstatically. "Oh, Jane, may youenjoy going abroad this winter as much as I shall going off now."
Jane smiled her pretty smile, and then, after the last wave of adieu,she and Lorenzo went back into the house.
"This is really very funny, you know," said Lorenzo; "first we will washall the dishes, and then we will plan our future."
"Yes," Jane said.
But they failed to do either.
Instead, they left the dishes and the future to care for themselves.Going straight down into the garden, climbing the two fences, safelysecluded in the little, growing, blooming inclosure, Lorenzo took hiswife in his arms, and said: "Oh, my dearest dear, how rightest righteverything is!"
THE END
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Transcriber's note:
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents ofthe speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not correctedunless noted below:
On page 228, "winable" was replaced with "winnable".
On page 242, the comma after "softly" was replaced with a period.
On page 245, the period after "cow declared" was replaced with a comma.
On page 278, "Mr Beamer" was replaced with "Mr. Beamer".
In the advertisements at the end of the book, the duplicate header onthe last page was removed.
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