As brothers the two men embraced.

As brothers they loved and trusted one another, from that day forth.
The door on the right was softly opened from within.

A charming face--the dark eyes bright with happy tears, the rosy lips just opening into a smile--peeped into the room.

A low sweet voice, with an under-note of trembling in it, made this modest protest, in the form of an inquiry: "When you have quite done, Percy, with our good friend, perhaps you will have something to say to ME ?" LAST WORDS.
THE persons immediately interested in the marriage of Percy and Charlotte were the only persons present at the ceremony.
At the little breakfast afterward, in the French hotel, Mr.Bowmore insisted on making a speech to a select audience of six; namely, the bride and bridegroom, the bridesmaid, the Chaplain, the Captain, and Mrs.Bowmore.But what does a small audience matter?
The English frenzy for making speeches is not to be cooled by such a trifle as that.

At the end of the world, the expiring forces of Nature will hear a dreadful voice--the voice of the last Englishman delivering the last speech.
Percy wisely made his honeymoon a long one; he determined to be quite sure of his superior influence over his wife before he trusted her within reach of her father again.
Mr.and Mrs.Bowmore accompanied Captain Bervie and Miss Bervie on their way back to England, as far as Boulogne.