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"Trust Bertha Harris to find things!" said the clergyman

The ceremony proceeded without further incident The final words were

pronounced and Anna sank into a chair, relieved that it was over,

whether it was for better or for worse

Sanderson hurried her into the carriage before the clergyratulations He pulled her away from

the yellow-haired housekeeper, ould have smothered her in an

embrace, and they departed without the custoyman

"You were not very cordial, dear," she said, as they rolled along

through the early winter landscape

"Confound them all I hated to see theaze--"because I love you soI hate

to see anyone touch you"

The trees were bare; the fields stretched away brown and flat, like the

folds of a shroud, and the sun was veiled by lowering clouds of gray

It was not a cheerful day for a wedding

"Lennox, did you remember that this is Friday? And I have on a black

dress"

"And now that Mrs Lennox has settled the question of to wed or not to