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It's of import, Deborah, that my parishioners, being easy folk, willing to live and let live, should like me still, and that a majority of my vestry should not be able to get on without me. With this in mind, get out the wine, dust the best chair, and be ready with thy curtsy. It will be time enough to cry Audrey's banns when she is asked in marriage."
Pratt on their way home?... No, there was plenty of time to make up her mind about that. To-day was only Tuesday, and any day up till Saturday would do for putting in notice of banns ... she must think things over before committing herself ... it wasn't only the shearers there was the hay.... Thus they came, walking apart in their own thoughts, to Jury's Gap.
A Londonderry wedding made a big noise in the world. After the formal publishing of the banns, guests were invited with much punctiliousness. The wedding day was suitably welcomed at daybreak by a discharge of musketry at both the bride's and the groom's house. At a given hour the bridegroom, accompanied by his male friends, started for the bride's home.
That night when the girl went to sleep the telegram was under her pillow, and it seemed to throb with a thousand messages, as if it felt the pulsation of the current that sent it. The prospective marriage of the budding millionaire Rodney Henderson was a society paper item in less than a week the modern method of publishing the banns.
"'But that year nothing seemed to thrive on the farm; the potato crop was a failure, and the cows got sick; so mother I decided it was best to put off the wedding a year. You see, I thought it didn't matter so much about the wedding as long as the banns had been read. But perhaps it was old-fashioned to think that way.
"But tell me first, thinkest thou, lad, that thy true love hath spirit enough to marry thee were ye together in church, the banns published, and the priest found, even were her father to say her nay?" "Ay, marry would she," cried Allan eagerly.
Besides this, beauty, so necessary to a woman, takes many strange aspects in man; and there is as much diversity of feeling among women about the beauty of men as there is among men about the beauty of women. So, after deep reflection and much debating with herself, Veronique gave her consent to the publication of the banns.
There have to be banns and so on, don't there? The third time of asking that brings it to the eighteenth of December. What about the nineteenth, Rhoda? That's a Monday." "Really, Peter ..." Rhoda blushed more than ever. "That seems awfully soon." "Well," said Peter, blind to the unusualness of such a discussion at the dinner-table, "the sooner the better, don't you think?
My dear Wife, Charles Grandet has returned from the Indies and has been in Paris about a month "A month!" thought Eugenie, her hand falling to her side. After a pause she resumed the letter, I had to dance attendance before I was allowed to see the future Vicomte d'Aubrion. Though all Paris is talking of his marriage and the banns are published "He wrote to me after that!" thought Eugenie.
"I was not aware that matters between Mrs. Rising and you had made such progress. I would offer to go to Saint Nicholas, and bid them put up the banns next Sunday, if I were not afraid it might bring my worthy uncle over from Brandon with a whip and a dog-collar." I sprang to my feet as red as fire, and was as likely to have answered him with a blow as a word, if Marian had not come between us.
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