About Georgie's
approaching nuptials now--"
"You're too tarsome" said he. "If you go on like that, I shan't ask you
to the wedding. Let's talk about Elizabeth's. When are they going to
get married, Mrs Weston?"
"That's what I said to Elizabeth. 'Get an almanack, Elizabeth,' said I,
'so that you won't choose a Sunday. Don't say the 20th of next month
without looking it out. But if the 20th isn't a Sunday or a Friday
mind, for though I don't believe in such things, still you never
know--' There was Mrs Antrobus now," said Mrs Weston suddenly, putting
in a footnote to her speech to Elizabeth, "it was on a Friday she
married, and within a year she got as deaf as you see her now. Then Mr
Weston's uncle, his uncle by marriage I should say, he was another Friday
marriage and they missed their train when going off on their honeymoon,
and had to stay all night where they were without a sponge or a tooth
brush between them, for all their luggage was in the train being
whirled away to Torquay. 'So make it the 20th, Elizabeth,' I said, 'if
it isn't a Friday or a Sunday, and I shall have time to look round me,
and so will the Colonel, though I don't expect that either of us will
find your equals! And don't cry, Elizabeth,' I said, for she was
getting quite watery, 'for if you cry about a marriage, what'll be left
for a funeral?'"
"Ha! Upon my word, I call that splendid of you," said the Colonel.
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