But let all these pay their toll and pass . Here comes a spectacle that causes the old toll-gatherer to smile benignantly , as if the travellers brought sunshine with them and lavished its gladsome influence all along the road . It is a harouche of the newest style , the varnished panels of which reflect the whole moving panorama of the landscape , and show a picture , likewise , of our friend , with his visage broadened , so that his meditative smile is transformed to grotesque merriment . Within , sits a youth , fresh as the summer morn , and beside him a young lady in white , with white gloves upon her slender bands , and a white veil flowing down over her face . But methinks her blushing cheek burns through the snowy veil . Another white-robed virgin sits in front . And who are these , on whom , and on all that appertains to them , the dust of earth seems never to have settled ? Two lovers , whom the priest has blessed , this blessed morn , and sent them forth , with one of the bridemaids , on the matrimonial tour . Take my blessing too , ye happy ones ! May the sky not frown upon you , nor clouds bedew you with their chill and sullen rain ! May the hot sun kindle no fever in your hearts ! May your whole life 's pilgrimage be as blissful as this first day 's journey , and its close be gladdened with even brighter anticipations than those which hallow your bridal night ! They pass ; and ere the reflection of their joy has faded from his face , another spectacle throws a melancholy shadow over the spirit of the observing man . In a close carriage sits a fragile figure , muffled carefully , and shrinking even from the mild breath of summer . She leans against a manly form , and his arm infolds her , as if to guard his treasure from some enemy . Let but a few weeks pass , and when he shall strive to embrace that loved one , he will press only desolation to his heart ! And now has morning gathered up her dewy pearls , and fled away . The sun rolls blazing through the sky , and can not find a cloud to cool his face with . The horses toil sluggishly along the bridge , and heave their glistening sides in short quick pantings , when the reins are tightened at the toll-house . Glisten , too , the faces of the travellers .
Their garments are thickly bestrewn with dust ; their whiskers and hair look hoary ; their throats are choked XXXXX the dusty atmosphere which they have left behind them .
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