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"Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning.
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"Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post to say that the mariage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later -- that is, on Wednesday last -- there is a curt announcement that the wedding had taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices which appeared before the disappearance of the bride."
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"Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start.
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"The vanishing of the lady."
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"When did she vanish, then?"
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"At the wedding breakfast."
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"Indeed.
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