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Red Eve

CHAPTER VIII
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I drank milk, and, save some dreams, remember no more till I heard Hugh's voice calling.

Now they tell me that I have stood at the altar with de Noyon, and that his priest read the mass of marriage over us, and--look! Oh! I never noted it till now--there is a ring upon my hand," and she cast it on the floor.

"Tell me, Father, according to the Church's law is that man my--my husband ?" Sir Andrew's eloquent dark eyes, that ever shadowed forth the thoughts which passed within him, grew very troubled.
"I cannot tell you," he answered awkwardly after thinking a while.

"This priest, Nicholas, though I hold him a foul villain, is doubtless still a priest, clothed with all the authority of our Lord Himself, since the unworthiness of the minister does not invalidate the sacrament.

Were it otherwise, indeed, few would be well baptized or wed or shriven.
Moreover, although I suspect that himself he mixed the draught, yet he may not have known that you were drugged, and you stood silent, and, it would appear, consenting.


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