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Group Story: Bride
- Margaret
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Group Story: Bride
The bride wore black, for she was still in mourning, but a glance was sufficient to reveal her purpose in marrying. The groom ...
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- Kveto from Prague
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....pedigree. From a poor and seedy background, his one attribute was to be extraordinarily good-looking, a fact which, in itself, the priest thought, explained the rapturous look his wife-to-be was giving him. The priest stuttered over the ceremonial marital questions, a feeling growing within him that all was not ...........
- Margaret
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It was unusual, Brother Amalric thought, watching the trio, for a bride to give such adoring glances to a man with such an appalling disfigurement. The duelling sword had sliced through young Roderic's left eyebrow, barely missing his eye, and carved a deep furrow into his cheek. Nor had the wound healed well. It remained red and inflamed and would, Amalric was sure, leave a prominent scar even when completely healed. It was unusual, further, for a bride of such aristocratic background not to resent the grasping designs of an unpedigreed upstart like Roderic (however promising his beginning in life), who was so obviously uninterested in her person. It was even more unusual for a priest to glower so over a couple before the altar. But ignorant as Amalric was about the motives that had driven this couple together, he knew one extraoardinary detail that he did not believe either the priest or anyone else in the world, saving perhaps the bride and groom themselves, was aware.
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- Margaret
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the Crimea, where he had been left for dead on the battlefield.
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