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CHAPTER III YOUNG LADY ANSTRUTHERS
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When the marriage took place the event was accompanied by an ingenuously1 elate flourish of trumpets3. Miss Vanderpoel's frocks were multitudinous and wonderful, as also her jewels purchased at Tiffany's. She carried a thousand trunks—more or less—across the Atlantic. When the ship steamed away from the dock, the wharf4 was like a flower garden in the blaze of brilliant and delicate attire5 worn by the bevy6 of relatives and intimates who stood waving their handkerchiefs and laughingly calling out farewell good wishes.
Sir Nigel's mental attitude was not a sympathetic or admiring one as he stood by his bride's side looking back. If Rosy7's half happy, half tearful excitement had left her the leisure to reflect on his expression, she would not have felt it encouraging.
“What a deuce of a row Americans make,” he said even before they were out of hearing of the voices. “It will be a positive rest to be in a country where the women do not cackle and shriek8 with laughter.”
He said it with that simple rudeness which at times professed9 to be almost impersonal10, and which Rosalie had usually tried to believe was the outcome of a kind of cool British humour. But this time she started a little at his words.
“I suppose we do make more noise than English people,” she admitted a second or so later. “I wonder why?” And without waiting for an answer—somewhat as if she had not expected or quite wanted one—she leaned a little farther over the side to look back, waving her small, fluttering handkerchief to the many still in
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condemnatory
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obtuseness
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