About ten o'clock
`` Just as if Mr. Starbird would stay away from his own wedding on account of the weather ! '' It rained all night ; but Thursday morning the sun came rushing through the clouds , his face all aglow with smiles , and put an end to such dismal business . Patty looked out of the window , and watched the clouds scampering away to hide , and whispered in her heart to the little birds that were left in the maple trees , -- `` How kind God is to give us a good wedding-day ! '' About ten o'clock the guests began to come , and among the first was Mr. Starbird . Patty had never seen him look so fine as he did when he stood up with her dear sister Dorcas to be married . He wore a blue coat , and a beautiful ruffled shirt , and his shoe-buckles -- so Moses said -- were of solid silver . Why he needed gloves in the house , Patty could not imagine ; but there they were on his hands , -- white kids at that .