[The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Clerks CHAPTER XXII 44/50
And this last scene shall not, after the usual manner of novelists, be that of the wedding, but rather one which in our eyes is of a much more enduring interest.
Crinoline and Macassar were duly married in Bloomsbury Church.
The dresses are said to have come from the house in Hanover Square.
Crinoline behaved herself with perfect propriety, and Macassar went through his work like a man. When we have said that, we have said all that need be said on that subject. "But we must beg our readers to pass over the space of the next twelve months, and to be present with us in that front sitting-room of the elegant private lodgings, which the married couple now prudently occupied in Alfred Place.
Lodgings! yes, they were only lodgings; for not as yet did they know what might be the extent of their income. "In this room during the whole of a long autumn day sat Macassar in a frame of mind not altogether to be envied.
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