I Forbid the Banns! — page 222: what you’re looking at

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212 ““T FORBID THE BANNS!” is how I mean to bring people to see with our eyes. My dearest husband, the force of our example will be felt upcn everyone with whom we come in contact.” ‘“‘T see,” said he, without any expression of great enthu- siasm. “ You agree with me ?” she said in a tone of inquiry. “ Undoubtedly, my dearest, I see that—that—if you get the right people to come Ms “ But we must get the right people, Julian. Where can the difficulty be? We must get people without prejudices.”’ “You will have to go out of England for them.” “T don’t think so. The clergy will be hard to convince —of course I am prepared for that.” ‘You had better be prepared for it.” ‘ But we shall get some well-known clergyman—a bishop, if necessary, certainly an archdeacon—to come and stay with us for a while, and we will convince him that it is possible for people to live a proper—nay, a noble life, if they only love one another truly, as we do, Julian. We will show all the world that love is the foundation of all good on earth—not marriage.”’ ‘You will convince the bishop or the archdeacon of the truth of this?” “ Why shouldwe not? They are educated men ; some of them are even intellectual, I believe. Why, wasn’t it a bishop who said that he would prefer to see the people of England free drinkers than enslaved teetotalers ? ”’ “It was a bishop who said something in that way. But, my dear Bertha, it is not yet on record that a bishop ever said that he would prefer seeing a man and a woman who loved each other truly living together without being mar- ried, rather than seeing in that condition a man and a woman who, without loving one another, have gone through the ceremony of marriage.”’ ‘“‘T don’t suppose any bishop has ever said so much yet ; | EOMMICLYOO|KS (EC)