Burchester, whom I had never
seen before, and have not seen since, acted as best man. Susan, tense
with the responsibilities of office, was the only bridesmaid. Mrs. Jupp
(late Considine) and her General were our only guests. Doria excused
herself from attendance, but sent the bride a travelling-case fitted
with a myriad dazzling gold-stoppered bottles and a phantasmagoria of
gold-mounted toilette implements.

And then they went on their honeymoon. And where do you think they went?
They signed again on the steamship _Vesta_. And Captain Maturin gave
them his cabin, which is more than I would have done, and slept, I
presume, in the dog-hole. And they were as happy as the ship was
abominable.

Now, as I write, there is a war going on in the Balkans. Jaffery is
there as the correspondent of _The Daily Gazette_. Liosha is there, too,
as the inseparable and peculiarly invaluable companion of Jaffery
Chayne. They live impossible lives. But what has that got to do with you
or me? They like it. They adore it. A more radiantly mated pair the
earth cannot produce. Their two-year-old son is learning the practice of
the heroic virtues at Cettinje, while his parents loaf about
battlefields in full eruption.

"Poor little mite!" says Barbara.

But I say:

"Lucky little Pantagruel!"

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