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Chapter 4 A Happy Return of the Day
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Mr and Mrs Wilfer had seen a full quarter of a hundred more anniversaries of their wedding day than Mr and Mrs Lammle had seen of theirs, but they still celebrated1 the occasion in the bosom2 of their family. Not that these celebrations ever resulted in anything particularly agreeable, or that the family was ever disappointed by that circumstance on account of having looked forward to the return of the auspicious3 day with sanguine4 anticipations5 of enjoyment6. It was kept morally, rather as a Fast than a Feast, enabling Mrs Wilfer to hold a sombre darkling state, which exhibited that impressive woman in her choicest colours.
The noble lady’s condition on these delightful7 occasions was one compounded of heroic endurance and heroic forgiveness. Lurid8 indications of the better marriages she might have made, shone athwart the awful gloom of her composure, and fitfully revealed the cherub9 as a little monster unaccountably favoured by Heaven, who had possessed10 himself of a blessing11 for which many of his superiors had sued and contended in vain. So firmly had this his position towards his treasure become established, that when the anniversary arrived, it always found him in an apologetic state. It is not impossible that his modest penitence12 may have even gone the length of sometimes
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