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Then, when the troth had been plighted in the midst of a more passionate roaring of the wind, the priest, conquering a terrible inward reluctance that beset him despite his endeavour to feel detached and formal, merely a priest engaged in a ceremony that it was his office to carry out, but in which he had no personal interest, spoke the fateful words: "Ego conjungo vos in matrimonium in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.
'I will, said Ortensia in a low tone, but by no means doubtfully. 'Ego conjungo vos, the priest went on; and the rest was soon said, the Bravi dropping on their knees at the benediction.
"Ego conjungo vos " He said all the words, and then, high in air, he made the great sign of the cross. "Benedictas vos omnipotens Deus " and he spoke all the benediction. He closed his eyes a moment in instant prayer. When he opened them and looked down, his face turned whiter still.
"The priest says, 'Ego conjungo vos'; and you are licensed to snap your fingers at everything that has bound you until that moment, as though the law of your marriage were your divorce from law." "That sounds clever," said Veronica; "but I do not believe it is." He laughed, indifferently; and after a moment or two, she looked at him, and smiled. "I did not mean to be so rude," she said.
When Abbe Mouret had said the Pater, he bowed to the altar, and went to the Epistle side. Then he came down, and made the sign of the cross over big Fortune and Rosalie, who were kneeling, side by side, before the altar-rails. 'Ego conjungo vos in matrimonium, in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.
Now then ego conjungo vos the devil, my friend, it is an awful sight!" "Cynic!" muttered Gouache, with a suppressed laugh. "There it is done now, and she is already thinking what it will be like to dine alone with him this evening, and several thousand evenings hereafter. Cynic, you say? There are no more cynics. They are all married, and must turn stoics if they can. Let us be off.
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