I Forbid the Banns! — page 223: what you’re looking at

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ON A BISHOP. 213 but I hope I shall live to hear one express a preference that would do honor to himself and the Church. We must do our best to bring about that record, Julian, and we shall do it, if we are only in earnest.” “Ves, we must be in earnest, that is certain.” The tone in which Charlton spoke was such as would lead one to the conclusion that his period of earnestness had not yet arrived. He may have had a suspicion that his tone con- veyed this to Bertha, for he added after a pause, ‘*‘ Any- how, my beloved, we will keep ourselves in a position to convince all comers that two people can continue loving each other truly and nobly, even though they have departed from the beaten track which civilized people have trod for many centuries.” “ Julian,” she cried, “that track that you talk of is like the slave track from the interior of Africa to the coast ; it is covered with the skeletons of those who have fallen beneath the weight of their shackles.” CORMIELIOOKS (C0)