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Yes, yes, State of New York--what are the names ?" "John D.Curtis and Hermione Beauregard Grandison," said Curtis.

His tone was so calm and self-confident that even the prospective bride was deaf for a moment to the vital significance of the words.

Then she whispered tremulously: "Are you not making some mistake ?" "No," he replied, looking her straight in the eyes.
The minister, whose ears partook of the defects in his other faculties, caught the word "mistake." "This is no place for mistakes, my dear young lady," he said, "A nice young couple like you should only require to be married once in your lives.

Take my advice, and stick to one another in sunshine and in storm, and you shall be blessed even unto the fourth generation.