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I gazed once more upon that different and more happy world, when I saw, blurring before my eyes, the words "I, John Cowles I, Ellen Meriwether take thee take thee for better, for worse till death do us part." I saw her name, "E-l-l-e-n." "Harry," said I, turning on him swiftly. "Your father is old. This is for you and me, I think. I shall be at your service soon." His face paled.
Again I felt my heart choke my throat as I read: "I, John Cowles I, Ellen Meriwether take thee take thee until death do us part." I handed her a pencil. She wrote slowly, freakishly, having her maiden will; and it seemed to me still a week to a letter as she signed. But at last her name stood in full E-l-l-e-n M-e-r-i-w-e-t-h-e-r. "General," I said, "this indenture witnesseth!
Letter by letter her name grew invisible form on the scroll of our covenant her name, already written, and more deeply, on my heart. On the fifth week she called once more for her charcoal pen, and signed the last letter of her Christian name! "See, there," she said, "it is all my girl name, E-l-l-e-n." I looked at it, her hand in mine. "'Ellen!" I murmured.
I drew it out, and spread it flat upon the bed before me, whitened and roughened with bone, reddened with blood, written on with rude stylus, bearing certain words which all the time, day and night, rang, yes, and sang, in my brain. "I, John Cowles I, Ellen Meriwether take thee, for better, for worse till death " I saw her name, E-l-l-e-n. Presently once more I departed.
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