A Wedding Trip

A Wedding Trip

BY EMILIA PARDO BAZN TRANSLATED BY MARY J. SERRANO TRANSLATOR OF MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF, THE JOURNAL OF A YOUNG ARTIST, ETC. CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY 104 & 106 Fourth Avenue Copyright, 1891, by CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY. All rights reserved. THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS, RAHWAY, N. J. That the wedding was not a fashionable one was to be seen at a glance. The bride and groom, indeed, so far as could be judged from externals, might mix in the most select society, but the greater number of the gueststhe chorus, so to saybelonged to that portion of the middle class which merges into and is scarcely to be distinguished from the mass of the people. Among them were some curious and picturesque groups, the platform of the railway station at Leon presenting a scene that would have greatly interested a genre painter. Just as in the ideal bridal scenes that we see painted on fans, it was noticeable here that the train of the bride was composed exclusively of the gentler, that of the bridegroom of the sterner sex. There was also noticeable a striking difference between the social conditions of the two parties. The brides escort, much the more numerous of the two, looked like a populous ant-hill. The women, both young and{2} old, wore the traditional black woolen dress, which, for the women of the lower classes who have some pretentions to gentility, has almost come to be the prescribed costume of ceremony; for the people still retain the privilege of donning gay colored garments on festive and joyous occasions. Among these human ants were several who were young and pretty, some of them joyous and excited with thoughts of the wedding, others lugubrious looking, their eyes red with weeping, thinking of the approaching parting. They were marshaled by half a dozen duennas of mature years who, from out the folds of their manto, cast around them on all sides sharp and suspicious glances. The whole troop of female friends flocked around the newly made bride, manifesting the puerile and eager curiosity which the spectacle of the supreme situations of life is apt to awaken in the breasts of the multitude. They devoured with their eyes the girl they had seen a thousand times before, whose every feature they knew by heartthe bride who, arrayed in her traveling dress, seemed to them a different being from the girl they had hitherto known. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 54577
Author: Pardo Bazán, Emilia
Release Date: Apr 19, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Serrano, Mary J. (Mary Jane), -1923