Digital heart book

From this ghostly
counselling, Jim turned to me; and though he never got
beyond the explosive utterance of my name and one
fierce handgrip, communicated some of his own emotion,
like a charge of electricity, to his best man. We
stood up to the ceremony at last, in a general and
kindly discomposure. Jim was all abroad; and the
divine himself betrayed his sympathy in voice and
demeanour, and concluded with a fatherly allocution, in
which he congratulated Mamie (calling her "my dear")
upon the fortune of an excellent husband, and protested
he had rarely married a more interesting couple. At
this stage, like a glory descending, there was handed
in, EX MACHINA, the card of Douglas B. Longhurst,
with congratulations and four dozen Perrier-Jouet. A
bottle was opened, and the minister pledged the bride,
and the bridesmaids simpered and tasted, and I made a
speech with airy bacchanalianism, glass in hand. But
poor Jim must leave the wine untasted. "Don't touch
it," I had found the opportunity to whisper; "in your
state it will make you as drunk as a fiddler.


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