It was, of course, as brilliant an affair as the resources of Cacouna could produce, and everybody really seemed to enjoy themselves.

The newly-married pair were in all eyes but Lucia's so well and happily matched, and had so reasonable a prospect of being content with each other and their fortunes, that there did not seem to be a single cloud on the day.

The same boat which had carried Maurice away three days before, took the bride and bridegroom on their tour, and not long after, the guests who had dispersed after breakfast began to reassemble for the evening dance.
Lucia and Magdalen, at the window of what had been Bella's room, amused themselves by watching the arrivals and talking over the event of the morning.
"Did you ever see such a girl as Bella ?" said Magdalen.

"It seems as if she could never be serious for a moment.

She went off laughing as if she were just coming back in half an hour." "Why should not she?
She is not going away as some people do, hundreds of miles from all her old friends." "No, but then it must be a kind of parting; she will never be with her sister again as she used to be.