Color Studies Author:Thomas Allibone Janvier Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "And now where's this little girl who fought and bled for you like such a regular heroine ? For she will be a Brown, too, before long, and I want to give her the... more » kiss that I have a right to give her ; and that? God bless her !?she shall have with all my heart!" " That I will be the best man of you, my dear Brown, you know well would be to me much joy. But perceive ! " and Jaune d'An- timoine slowly turned himself about, that the worst might be known of the many shab- binesses of his very ancient suit of clothes. " And these are beyond all the best that I do own of all the world, my Brown. What would you 'ave ? For your wedding, in such clothings as these, I should be one 'orror; one?I do not know the English? one textit{tpouvantail. And in the small month that does pass before your wedding comes, what can be for me to do that such vast moneys as must be paid for new clothings shall be mine ? No, my good friend, 'e isnot posseeble : though to say such does destroy my 'art!" And in view of this very explicit and very reasonable statement of his inability to act in the premises, quite the most notable feature of the wedding was Jaune d'Antimoine's brilliant discharge of the functions of best man, in a resplendent suit of clothes that made him the delight of Rose Carthame's eyes, and the admiration of all Greenwich for many, many days. The wedding was a quiet affair in St. Luke's Church, with a lunch in old Madder's studio afterward?at which Uncle Mangan made a speech that was all the better because he choked a good deal over it, and had to wipe his eyes with a big silk handkerchief two or three times, and that came to an end by his fairly breaking down. And Jaune d'Antimoine, clad in his garments of truly Oriental magnificence, gave the health of the bridemaids?Rose Carthame...« less