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Married. Sir John William Frederick Fagge, 29, farmhand-baronet of Faver-sham, Kent, England (TIME, April 29); and Ivy Frier, housemaid; in Kent. Sir John's fellow volunteer firemen made an archway of hatchets as the couple left the church...
...Virgin is shown seated on a carved throne within a Gothic structure. Over her head is a canopy of a rich red color, while in her hand is a book which she is reading tranquilly. On her right the Archangel Gabriel is about to enter through an archway which is decorated with a scroll motif much like that which was so common in the Renaissance...
...Gothie architecture is done especially well, with a keen eye for details, and the scroll motif on the archway is of particular interest because it shows that the Renaissance influence was beginning of penetrate into France...
...next encounters her in Cairo during the War; he has lost an arm in His Majesty's service and she is the luxurious mistress of a General. When she invites him to a tete-a-tete dinner against an archway filled with the radiant Egyptian sky, he spoils the event by broaching matters of the spirit again. "You women," he declares, "promise everything and give nothing?you promise everything; the sun, the stars and the tops of green hills." So affected is she by a vast amount of this sort of phraseology that she returns to Edinburgh as his dutiful...
Under the archway which faces Standish was a blue-clad youth, who directed the fair, bewildered guests and warded them off from entries in which they were not expected. Puzzled occupants who were not included gaped from open windows or stood in groups, eyeing each other with questioning glances as the ladies began to arrive. Perhaps it was fortunate that those invited came not in a body but in straggling numbers, for at the height of the merriment the capacity of the five suites was sorely taxed...