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Updated: June 11, 2025
"I'll pull myself together.... Now, say on once more." "We can't marry without his consent." "Why not?" I said, not having a marked respect for the professor's whims. "Gretna Green is out of date, but there are registrars." "I hate the very idea of a registrar," she said with decision. "Besides " "Well?" "Poor father would never get over it. We've always been such friends.
Mollie Gretna was staring eagerly out on the opposite side of the car at a group of three dago sailors, whom Mareno had nearly run down, but she turned at that moment and caught Rita's glance. "Don't you simply love it!" she cried. "Some of those men were really handsome, dear. If they would only wash I am sure I could adore them!"
"They're going to take photographs of a Gretna Green wedding of ancient times, for a biograph show, evidently," said Sir Somerled MacDonald, and quickly explained to the late prisoner of the glass retort the nature of a biograph. "Rather a good idea that! Apparently they're waiting for their chief characters, the bride and groom." He was helping Mrs.
The landlord would no doubt have been much dismayed if any wag had entered and demanded a chaise and post-horses to drive to Gretna Green, and a shabby motor in his stable-yard showed that he marched with the times. Miss Strong, on consulting her watch, decided that her party might safely indulge in a halt of half an hour, and ordered tea for nine persons.
Irvin?" asked Margaret, leaning towards the speaker. "It was about Mollie Gretna. Someone wrote and told me that she had eloped with a billiard marker a married man with five children!" Seton laughed heartily, and so did Margaret and Rita. "Right!" cried Seton. "She did. When last heard of she was acting as barmaid in a Portsmouth tavern!" But Monte Irvin did not laugh.
David Crumplin was offered the hospitality of the scullery for the examination of his dog, but preferred to get Grip away with him after an admission that "Your puppy there will do some killin' in his day, sir, if he lives to see it. But as for this other fellow" pointing to Finn "he could down any dog this side o' Gretna Green, an' you can say as I said so. I know most of 'em."
And I said, "If nobody ever asks me to be his real wife, I shan't be as badly off as other old maids, because, whatever happens, I have had my wedding a wedding at Gretna Green!" We had a bridal sort of luncheon in the car, which was shunted off the highway into a green shadowed road abandoned to summer dreams. Mrs.
At Estevan and Gretna they are seen in charge of large herds of quarantined cattle, attending sick animals, milch cows, and at the expiration of their term in quarantine driving them long distances by trail, loading on trains and conveying them to their different destinations; in Manitoba they are engaged in enforcing the customs laws, aiding the regular customs officials, whose duties they at times perform, and executing the Crown Timber and Dominion Land regulations; and, in addition to this work of a special nature, everywhere carrying out their regular duties of detecting crime, aiding the administration of justice, acting as prairie fire and game guardians, and maintaining a patrol system which covers weekly some 1,200 miles."
While on my way to Dumfries I stopped overnight at Gretna Green, which, as all fair maidens know, is in Scotland just over the border from England. To my delight I found that the coming of runaway couples to Gretna Green was not entirely a matter of the past, for the very evening I arrived a blushing pair came to the inn and inquired for a "meenister."
And Henry, engaged for a moment taking a second cup of tea from Madame Imogen's fat hand, Michael answered for him, looking straight into her eyes: "Michael Howard Arranstoun of Arranstoun over the border in Scotland like Gretna Green." "How romantic that sounds," Madame Imogen chimed in. "Why, it's a name fit for a stage play I do think.
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