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The Entire March Family Trilogy
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- about 1420
- Category
- Literature & Fiction
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 26 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they
afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there
the match was also broken off. Why it was broken off, and why it was
renewed after a lapse of years, is part of quite a long love-story,
which I do not think myself qualified to rehearse, distrusting my
fitness for a sustained or involved narration; though I am persuaded
that a skillful romancer could turn the courtship of Basil and Isabel
March to excellent account. Fortunately for me, however, in attempting
to tell the reader of the wedding-journey of a newly married couple,
no longer very young, to be sure, but still fresh in the light of their
love, I shall have nothing to do but to talk of some ordinary traits of
American life as these appeared to them, to speak a little of well-known
and easily accessible places, to present now a bit of landscape and now
a sketch of character.
They had agreed to make their wedding-journey in the simplest and
quietest way, and as it did not take place at once after their marriage,
but some weeks later, it had all the desired charm of privacy from the
outset.
“How much better,” said Isabel, “to go now, when nobody cares
whether you go or stay, than to have started off upon a wretched
wedding-breakfast, all tears and trousseau, and had people wanting
to see you aboard the cars. Now there will not be a suspicion of
honey-moonshine about us; we shall go just like anybody else,--with
a difference, dear, with a difference!” and she took Basil's cheeks
between her hands. In order to do this, she had to ran round the table;
for they were at dinner, and Isabel's aunt, with whom they had begun
married life, sat substantial between them.
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