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...Moreover, fire broke out for the second time in five years in the south wing of the royal couple's stately Georgian bridal home, Sunninghill Park. Ten fire companies battled the blaze from midnight until dawn, while flames shot 50 :feet into the air. By morning, when the fire was at last put out, most of the roof was burnt off, and only one wing had escaped damage...
...kind to an escaped convict on the marshes. The convict is given his freedom in Australia, and he never forgets Pip. The other plot concerns a woman, who since her bridegroom failed at her wedding years before, has never seen the light of day. She lives in her bridal dress in a room that still contains the banquet table complete with wedding cake. Pip is summoned to talk to her once a week, and there he meets a beautiful girl, Estella, who is being trained by the old lady to revenge her on men. But Pip loves her right through...
Waiting for the Brides. Then Sayed Abdul Rahman and his followers turned to still greater joys. On this day of days, Sudanese bridegrooms could marry for an $8 dowry instead of the usual expensive outlay for bridal clothes and marriage feasts. Four hundred bridegrooms took advantage of the cut rate. They faced their brides' proxies (the brides' fathers) and took the marriage vows. While the absent, newlywed wives waited expectantly at home, the menfolk took off to pub-crawl the cafés of flag-decked Omdurman, to feast, sing and dance...
...stately quadrille at a huge ball given by the "colored community" in the City Hall. For once royal fashions played second fiddle to a dazzling array of East Indian and Malay costumes as 4,000 variously hued clerks, teachers, merchants and housemaids put on a pageant of native dances, bridal ceremonies, songs and a full-fledged oldtime Malay picnic for the sovereigns...
...steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...