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A tipsy bridegroom regales a railway compartment with his philosophy of happiness while searching for the coach where his new wife waits.
A harmless sound in a wedding kitchen convinces a schoolmaster that scandal is about to ruin him.
An impoverished young bride enters a joyless marriage, then discovers that beauty can confer a power her husband never expected.
A barber learns midway through a free haircut that poverty has cost him the woman he loves.
A seven-year-old watches the household arrange its cook’s marriage and struggles to understand why a stranger can claim authority over her.
On his wedding night, an ardent Norman sportsman must choose between his waiting bride and suspected poachers.
An uninformed bride mistakes her wedding night for an attack, then becomes convinced a playful dog bite has doomed her honeymoon.
A drunken wrong turn at a country wedding leaves a determined bachelor facing a second ceremony he never planned.
A nervous bridegroom’s wedding-night embarrassment sends him into Paris in search of a drastic remedy.
A lavish wedding breakfast paid for by an estranged daughter turns awkward when the groom chooses the wrong song.
On his wedding night, a reformed libertine receives an urgent summons that brings his abandoned past into his new marriage.
On her first trip to Paris, a newlywed becomes alarmed when her husband does not rejoin her after boarding an omnibus.
A housemaid watches her respectable fiancé rise in the world—and begin to treat their long engagement as something beneath him.
A Brooklyn detective traces disappearances and occult meetings to a scholar whose sudden return to society conceals a deeper threat.
A woman in a remote Klondike cabin waits for Dave Walsh, and a visitor's guide knows why he has not come.
After watching the woman he loves marry another man, a proud bachelor reconstructs the misunderstanding that destroyed his chance.
A boarder in mourning attracts a would-be suitor with a tale of a dead count, but wedding plans bring other secrets to light.
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