So with my mind troubled I sat still, but by and by I took occasion from the rain now holding up (it raining when we came into the church) to put my wife in mind of going to the christening (which she was invited to) of N.
This evening my wife come home from christening Mrs. Hunt's son, his name John, and a merchant in Mark Lane came along with her, that was her partner.
We have been married six years, so christening has been an annual event with us.
I had made her a proposition to postpone the christening for a month, and only then to give our aristocratic family connections at home information of the happy event.
And then just fancy the happiness if there should be a christening in the family, and I should be godfather to your son!
When the time for the young Prince's christening came the King chose as godmother a neighbouring Princess, so celebrated for her wisdom and goodness that she was commonly called 'the Good Queen.
Would to God they might at least vote thee, Pasquino, royal high-chaplain and master of ceremonies in the court chapels, or let thee down from the roof by a rope at the christening as baptismal angel!
A christening in a public church is a public service, and open to the world at large.
Chapter XXVII The Christening The next day was the day of the christening.
Darvell of course knew that they had been brought from the church to the house, and had been invited in to the christening breakfast.
I turned round, and then thought that it was impossible We have just been christening my child.
Twenty thousand pounds two months since, when Crinkett appeared at the christening would have sent these people away.
So the wise-men drew up the lists, and when the day for the christening arrived, the fairies were all there, and everything went as smoothly as a frosted cake.
When the night of the christening arrived the castle was beautiful to behold.
I have not heard yet of any christening being directed, but for that I am in no manner of pain: for, if it be never christened, I think 'tis in a better state than a great many devout people that I know.
The christening took place as usual in the Princess's bedchamber.
The exordium thus duly prepared, you must suppose, ladies, that the second act opens with a royal christening The Princess of Wales had been delivered of a second son.
She is thus described in a ballad, made upon the quarrel between George the First and the Prince of Wales, at the christeningrecorded at p.
And of course they invited the fairies, because the good fairies had always been at the christening party when a princess was born in the palace, and everybody knew that they brought good gifts.
The good fairies came to the christening party, and, one after another, five of them gave little Daylight good gifts.
To Oriana, on attending with her, as Sponsors, at a Christening To my Spaniel Fanny Widowed Love Written to the Lady of Dr.
Mrs. Hose thechristening said Miss Gerling Mr. Johns is not here we are wateing for him.
All this while during the christening Mr. Johns kept standing on one leg and blowing his nose rather hard, he didn't have to say much tho he looked rather embarassed.
Christening ceremonials among our superior citizens are becoming more and more beautiful each year in New York.
For their great feasts, particular care is taken to have the oldest bread; so that at the christening of a child, they have usually bread which had been baked perhaps at the christening of his grandfather!
She used to show it to me on the silver christening cup that came down to me from the great-great-aunt for whom I am named.
It brought back the old feeling Tippy used to give me when she traced my name on my silver christening cup, the feeling that it was up to me to keep it shining.
I simply couldn't stand it to go through life and not write my name on the world's memory as it was written in the silver of my christening cup.
Her three beautiful daughters (destined to take and keep the hearts of a family of Thorntons) were present at the christening and full of interest in their Aunt Mary and her first boy.
The christenings were seasons of large family gatherings--the silver christening bowl, like the punch-bowl, descending from generation to generation.
They had a very happy christening party, chiefly juvenile, in honour of little Willie and of Francis and Emily Nugent.
He is much flattered by your Majesty's most gracious desire that he should bear the Sword of State at the ceremony of the christening of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
The christeningwill be at Buckingham Palace on the 10th of February, our dear marriage-day.
Our christening went off very brilliantly, and I wish you could have witnessed it; nothing could be more anständig, and little Alice behaved extremely well.
After the christening a Mass and Te Deum were read, and when we came back to the Tuileries the corps municipal brought the sword which the City of Paris has given to the Comte de Paris.
I should not have bored you by my presence, but the act of the christening is, in my eyes, a sort of closing of the first cyclus of your dear life.
The third day was fixed for christening the baby: mean-time Grigory had reached a conclusion.
For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen, and my christening is taken off me and becomes of no avail.
Forgive me, the last thing about Diderot’s christening I made up just now.
The christening feast of Kenni-Kenni and Alivani was long remembered in the Dark Islands.
And what it cost her no man may venture to say, for she had been looking forward to the christening of Jean's boy as a white stone day in her life.
It was an extraordinary thing, but none of the nobles could come to the christening party when they learned that the fairies had not been asked.
In a moment there he found himself; for this was that famous carpet which Prince Hussein bought long ago, in the market at Bisnagar, and which the fairies had brought, with the other presents, to the christening of Prince Prigio.
Now, the time drew near for the christening party, and the king and queen were sitting at breakfast in their summer parlour talking over it.
We think, however, that it must be by a mistake of the old clerk, when a christening appears actually upon record before the wedding, the circumstance being quite out of the course of nature.
The chapel and every room through which the christening procession had to pass were hung with choice tapestry, while the greatness of the occasion was marked by the munificent gift of L1000 which was offered to the nurse.
She had invited a few friends to partake of her christening fare, and expected her relative, Stephen Laud, from Felixstowe Ferry, to stand with Margaret Catchpole and herself as sponsors for the little Susan.
I never was at a christening party," said the young man; "whom shall we meet there, father?
The merry christening passed away, and the friends parted, but not for a long period.
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