I Forbid the Banns! — page 202: what you’re looking at

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192 BL OI De Lad 11 oe AVIV ing love and all will be well. If it be love in very deed it will remain part of their lives forever, just as it is all our life now, my beloved—it will not require the bond woven by the priest to keep it fast to their lives. That love which needs to be bound with fetters to the life which a man and a woman lead together as husband and wife is not love at all, but something quite different from love.”’ ‘“My dearest,’’ said he, ‘‘there was a time when I did not agree with you, but now your thoughts are my thoughts. Yes, “Love shall be Lord—Love shall be Lord—Love shall be Lord!’ Your finger—quick! Iplace upon it this mystic symbol of that which is without beginning—without end—a symbol of love’s completeness—a type of the faithful. My love, you are faithful, not merely unto death, but unto some- thing which is stronger than death—faithful unto love.’’ He slipped the yellow circle on her finger and put his ar as about her. | They were considerably late for lunch. It was a great descent from the heights of the psychology of love to the plains of plain cookery. The butler was severe in his demeanor toward them. He served them with an air of Christian resignation, which is the most exasperating attitude on earth. The cook did not possess the exasperating virtue of Chris- tian resignation. She was loud. The housekeeper raised her hands and declared that she was greatly surprised at the want of consideration displayed by Mr. and Mrs. Charlton. If they had been on their honeymoon there might, she admitted, be some excuse for them; but having been married some months, as she had good reasons for assuming they were, she felt bound to say —though she frankly allowed that it went to her heart to do so—that they were a couple of young fools. It was only when Mrs. Charlton confided in the house- keeper that she was becoming extremely anxious about her CORMNIECLIOOKS (E(0) m