according to the OED a "fortnight" is a period of fourteen days, exactly two weeks. For example "the wedding is in a fortnight, you can't say no to everything"

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According to the OED to desolate means to devastate, lay waste, to make bare, barren, or unfit for habitation.

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1. According to the OED, "ardent" means burning, on fired, red hot, fiery, parching.

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according to the OED "inuring" means to operate; to exercise, to practise, to commit.

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We can see that this reaction she is being given is of one that causes extreme despair. Also comparing the melancholy to a child who has cried themselves to sleep is one that has great significance. The "wild abandonment" is the way she is described mourning since the news of her husbands passing one she thought that was very visible, is one she is not taking lightly. Being surrounded by family she is able to let loose and to completely break down and start bawling down at the loss of her husband and it is a complete mess. She sees her life as unfit to be lived without her husband and it was difficult for a woman of her time to move on without a husband. Knowing what is coming for her and that her entire life has been a cage and that with the presumed death of her husband because of all the emotions and everything else she has to process. During this time period women were oppressed and have limited if any freedom, so with the death of her husband there is so many different emotions and so many situations to contemplate due to new found freedom in a sense.

sub·lim·i·nal (of a stimulus or mental process) below the threshold of sensation or consciousness; perceived by or affecting someone's mind without their being aware of it. (oxford)

Noun 1)feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.

2) a moral weakness or defect (wordhippo)

1)The state of being objective. 2)Moral objectivism. 3) (philosophy) Any of several doctrines that holds that all of reality is objective and exists outside of the mind. 4)The specific objectivist philosophy created by novelist Ayn Rand, endorsing logical reasoning and self-interest (wordhippo)

The swains would be dancing as to celebrate what would be the wedding to the bride and groom, on a count of celebrating their love. The joy of having their feelings for one another would forever live on and be present but feelings can be like the weather, fleeting and unpredictable. He would be wanting her to live with him to be his love? Is she not already his love? Must she have to complete it?

Here we have the bride having all the finery as traditionally embedded in many cultures in present day. The description of luxurious attire for the love of his life and solidifying his love with marriage. Why must he prove his love with marriage? Is there no other way to prove his love other than marriage?Perhaps just be a lifelong partner and be the person that she needs throughout the course of her life and not "trap" her with paper and ink. Why must the shoes have buckles with the purest gold when it would be something she's wearing on her feet? Why could it not be something modest? Since with love all that would be needed is passiona dna simple life, shoes to resemble to simple path she would be walking on.