I am not going to say I want to take you away from
drudgery, and put you in a better position, because I want you to take
me for myself, if I am worth taking, as a man."
Miss Graves looked upon his manly honest face with eyes as honest, yet
with the merest shade of coquetry in them, and said: "You are worth
taking as a man."
"Then, take me, Marion, and all I have."
"You are not a bit like my picture of a Scotch wooer. You give a poor
girl no chance to hold you back."
"But I don't want to be held back. Shall we report ourselves to the
matrimonial congress?"
"Oh no, not yet, Mr. Douglas; you take wonderful liberties with a new
acquaintance."
Some distance off, Mr. Terry was trying to still the voice of Marjorie.
"I saw him, granpa, I saw Jim with my very own eyes. Oh, these men will
break my heart!"
The first parties to perpetrate matrimony were Ben Toner and Biddy
Sullivan. Mr. Toner, to use his own expressive language, was afraid
Serlizer might round on him if he delayed. Therefore, Father McNaughton
was called in, and, with the aid of Rufus Hill and Barney Sullivan,
groomsmen, Norah Sullivan and Christie Hislop, bridesmaids, and the
Bigglethorpes and Lajeunesses, spectators, the knot was tied.
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