You will see, Mr.Williams, that this has not quite expired." The minister looked at it and then said, "I depend on your judgment, Mr.Anderson.There seems to be something peculiar about the circumstances of this marriage." "Very peculiar," said Andrew.
"You give me your word, then, that it is a marriage I ought to solemnize ?" "The lady is my niece," said Andrew.

"The marriage, taking place in this castle, will shed more glory upon it than its whole history beside; and you, sir, have never performed a marriage ceremony in a case where the marriage was so excellent as this." "Except the last one," put in Jonas.
I suppose Mr.Williams made the proper reductions for Andrew's enthusiasm.

But he was satisfied, and perhaps he was rather inclined to be satisfied, for gentle-hearted old men are quite susceptible to a romantic situation.
When he asked August if he would live with this woman in holy matrimony "so long as ye both shall live," August, thinking the two hours of time left to him too short for the earnestness of his vows, looked the old minister in the eyes, and said solemnly: "For ever and ever!" "No, my son," said the old man, smiling and almost weeping, "that is not the right answer.

I like your whole-hearted love.

But it is far easier to say 'for ever and ever,' standing as you think you do now on the brink of eternity, than to say 'till death do us part,' looking down a long and weary road of toil and sickness and poverty and change and little vexations.