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When the rector had mentioned "from a money point of view" Mrs. Bertram
had forced herself to clear her brows, and smile amiably. After all,
beside this great and important question of money what were these small
worries but pinpricks.
The pin-prick, however, was capable of going somewhat deeper, when
Catherine informed her mother that Beatrice particularly wished to have
her friends, the Bells, and Daisy Jenkins as bride's-maids at her
wedding.
"No, no, impossible," burst from Mrs. Bertram's lips.
But in the end she had to yield this point also, for what will not a
woman do who is hard beset and pressed into a corner to set herself free
from so humiliating and torturing a position.
Thus everything was getting ready for the great event. The bride's
trousseau was the wonder of all beholders. The subject of Beatrice's
wedding was the only one on the _tapis_, and no one saw a little
cloud in the sky, nor guessed at even the possibility of trouble ahead.
CHAPTER XXV.
WEDDING PRESENTS.
Notwithstanding her crushing disappointment Matty Bell did not sink into
an early grave. That report which had got into the country with regard
to her funeral and tombstone began to be very flatly contradicted. It
was now whispered on the breeze that Matty was not only in a fair state
of recovery but also that a substantial means of consolation had been
opportunely found her.
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