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The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
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The very next day he burst in upon me in a state of bliss bordering on mania.
“But there is a tragic side to it,” he said when the story was over. “For half the year I shall be exiled to Bordeaux, Marseilles and Algiers as the representative of Dulau et Compagnie.”
“The very best thing that could happen for your domestic happiness,” said I.
“What? With my heart” – he thumped his heart – “with my heart hurting like the devil all the time?”
“So long as your heart hurts,” said I, “you know it isn’t dead.”
A short while afterwards they were married in London. I was best man and Jean, specklessly attired, was page of honour, and the vicar of her own church at Chislehurst performed the ceremony. The most myopic of creatures could have seen that Anne was foolishly in love with her rascal husband. How could she help it?
As soon as the newly wedded pair had received the exhortation, Aristide, darting to the altar-rail, caught Jean up in his arms, and, to the consternation of the officiating clergy, the verger, and Anne’s conventional friends, cried out exultingly:
“Ah, mon petit. It was a lucky day for both of us when I picked you up on the road between Salon and Arles. Put your hands together as you do when you’re saying your prayers, mon brave, and say, ‘God bless father and mother.’”
Jean obediently adopted the attitude of the infant Samuel in the pictures.
“God bless father and mother,” said he, and the childish treble rang out queerly in the large, almost empty church.
There was a span of silence and then all the women-folk fell on little Jean and that was the end of that wedding.
The End
notes
1
The Adventures of the Foundling.
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