[The Lost Lady of Lone by E.D.E.N. Southworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lost Lady of Lone CHAPTER VII 14/22
She shivered and hurried on.
She paused a moment before the door leading to the ante-room of her father's bed-chamber, and listened to hear if he were stirring; but all within seemed as still as death.
She went on and descended the stairs and reached the library-door, just as Kitty opened it and said: "Miss Levison, my lord," and retired to give place to the young lady. Miss Levison entered the library. Lord Arondelle, in his wedding dress, stood by the central book-table.
As his costume was the regulation uniform of a gentleman's full dress, it needs no description here.
Gentlemen array themselves much in the same style for a dinner or a ball, a wedding or a funeral--the only difference to mark the occasion being in the color of the gloves. Lord Arondelle advanced to meet his bride. "My love and queen! this meeting is a grace granted me indeed! How beautiful you are!" he exclaimed, taking both her hands and carrying them to his lips.
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