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CHAPTER I. SOME OPINIONS AND A WEDDING
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“I, Bertram, take thee, Billy,” chanted the white-robed clergyman.
“'I, Bertram, take thee, Billy,'” echoed the tall young bridegroom, his eyes gravely tender.
“'To my wedded wife.'” The bridegroom's voice shook a little.
“To have and to hold from this day forward.”
“'To have and to hold from this day forward.'” Now the young voice rang with triumph. It had grown strong and steady.
“For better for worse.”
“'For better for worse.'”
“For richer for poorer,” droned the clergyman, with the weariness of uncounted repetitions.
“'For richer for poorer,'” avowed3 the bridegroom, with the decisive emphasis of one to whom the words are new and significant.
“In sickness and in health.”
“'In sickness and in health.'”
“To love and to cherish.”
“'To love and to cherish.'” The younger voice carried infinite tenderness now.
“Till death us do part.”
“'Till death us do part,'” repeated the bridegroom's lips; but everybody knew that what his heart said was: “Now, and through all eternity4.”
“'According to God's holy ordinance.'”
“'And thereto I plight thee my troth.'”
There was a faint stir in the room. In one corner a white-haired woman blinked tear-wet eyes and pulled a fleecy white shawl more closely about her shoulders. Then the minister's voice sounded again.
“I, Billy, take thee, Bertram.”
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groom
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wedded
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eternity
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ordinance
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idol
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hideous
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jade
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hubbub
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automobile
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blandly
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obdurate
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license
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impulsive
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delightful
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postpone
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heralding
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perfectly
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eyebrows
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abhorred
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remarkably
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tragic
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peculiar
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vaguely
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spoke
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defense
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lame
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crutches
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sling
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mistily
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helping
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dozing
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spunk
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surmises
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strata
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beacon
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predecessor
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moody
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stammered
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landlady
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wondrousness
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