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Updated: November 2, 2025
I had said nothing to Charley about my ride, and the old church, and the marriage-register.
Susanna on the same day offered John, or the wooden idol she was worshiping as John, her whole self mind, body, heart, and spirit. So the couple were united, and smilingly signed the marriage-register, a rite by which their love for each other was supposed to be made eternal. "Will you love me?" said he. "Will you love me?" said she.
My anxiety to examine the register did not dispose me to offer much encouragement to the old man's talkativeness. I agreed with him that nobody could help the untidiness of the vestry, and then suggested that we should proceed to our business without more delay. "Ay, ay, the marriage-register, to be sure," said the clerk, taking a little bunch of keys from his pocket.
Van Lann stigmatizes this poem, Le Semaine ou Creation du Monde, as "the marriage-register of science and verse, written by a Gascon Moses, who, to the minuteness of a Walt Whitman and the unction of a parish-clerk, added an occasional dignity superior to anything attained by the abortive epic of his master." But he had some subtle, and to the nineteenth century mind, inscrutable charm.
Two large books were lying before him on the vestry table, one of them being open. As the clerk spoke he looked slantingly on the page, as a person might do to discover if some writing were dry. Mountclere and Chickerel gazed on the same page. The book was the marriage-register. 'Too late! said Chickerel. There plainly enough stood the signatures of Lord Mountclere and Ethelberta.
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