THE RESULTS
JANE was married in the early autumn.
She didn't have any trousseau or any wedding presents or any bridal
trip. It was a new kind of wedding, because so much about her and her
way of looking at life was new to those about her, that even her
marriage had to match it. "My clothes are always in nice order," she
said to Susan, slightly appalled over the non-existing preparations,
"and I love to sew and will make what I need as I need it."
"I don't want any presents," Lorenzo had said decidedly. "I don't want
any one on earth to groan because I'm marrying Jane."
"I don't think much of bridal trips; Matthew and I didn't have one, so I
know all about them," said Matilda, who now had her standard and never
lowered it for one instant; "those bothers are just about over for
sensible people."
So it all fell out in this way. One lovely bright September day, Mr. and
Mrs. Beamer and Mrs. Susan Ralston walked quietly into the village
church and sat down in the front pew. Shortly after the clergyman and
the bride and the groom came in, and the clergyman married the bride to
the groom. Then they all went out together, and the clergyman left them
to go home together. A nice cold luncheon was spread at Susan's, and the
cat was waiting, scratching hard at his white bow while he did so.
After luncheon Mr. Beamer, his wife, and his wife's sister went off for
a journey.
"Think of me traveling!" Susan cried ecstatically. "Oh, Jane, may you
enjoy going abroad this winter as much as I shall going off now."
Jane smiled her pretty smile, and then, after the last wave of adieu,
she and Lorenzo went back into the house.
"This is really very funny, you know," said Lorenzo; "first we will wash
all the dishes, and then we will plan our future."
"Yes," Jane said.
But they failed to do either.
Instead, they left the dishes and the future to care for themselves.
Going straight down into the garden, climbing the two fences, safely
secluded in the little, growing, blooming inclosure, Lorenzo took his
wife in his arms, and said: "Oh, my dearest dear, how rightest right
everything is!"
THE END
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Transcriber's note:
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of
the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected
unless noted below:
On page 228, "winable" was replaced with "winnable".
On page 242, the comma after "softly" was replaced with a period.
On page 245, the period after "cow declared" was replaced with a comma.
On page 278, "Mr Beamer" was replaced with "Mr. Beamer".
In the advertisements at the end of the book, the duplicate header on
the last page was removed.