'But such a woman as Mrs Kenwigs was, afore she was married! Good gracious, such a woman!'
'But only see what it is now,' urged the married lady.
'She looks a deal more like her own daughter,' said the married lady.
Mr Kenwigs was about to make some further observations, most probably in confirmation of this opinion, when another married lady, who had looked in to keep up Mrs Kenwigs's spirits, and help to clear off anything in the eating and drinking way that might be going about, put in her head to announce that she had just been down to answer the bell, and that there was a gentleman at the door who wanted to see Mr Kenwigs 'most particular.'
"She's married to whom?" cries the spinster in a nervous fury.
"O Ma'am--prepare her, Miss Briggs--she's married to Rawdon Crawley."
"Rawdon married Rebecca--governess--nobod-- Get out of my house, you fool, you idiot--you stupid old Briggs--how dare you?
When Sir Pitt Crawley heard that Rebecca was married to his son, he broke out into a fury of language, which it would do no good to repeat in this place, as indeed it sent poor Briggs shuddering out of the room; and with her we will shut the door upon the figure of the frenzied old man, wild with hatred and insane with baffled desire.
She admits it's as nice as Jane's, although she says Jane
married a millionaire and you are only marrying a
not lawfully married, my son (whatever his faults and failings may be) is a gentleman.
Macallan had been twice married (as I had rashly chosen to suppose), she would certainly have shown some signs of recognition when she heard me addressed by her first husband's name.
In London I could obtain the legal opinion which would tell me whether I were lawfully married to Eustace or not.
Surely they can spare a little of it, just one day's sight of it, to a less happy world,--a world long since married and done for, and with little happiness in it save the spectacle of other people's happiness.
I don't know myself what getting married must feel like, but it cannot be much more exciting than watching other people getting married.
"Well, you see," she said, "he had been married before.
