I Forbid the Banns! — page 298: what you’re looking at

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288 “7 FORBID THE BANNS!" twelve thousand pounds a year would do it, especially if she continued buying the products of intellect at the prices suggested by the producers. ‘‘T do not want the intellect at my feet,’’ she said. “I only want to live without being subjected to the insults of such men as were here just now. Why, in driving in the cattle to the stockyards, the men never swore when I was at hand.” “And yet I believe that that is a work that is mainly accomplished by judicious vituperation,” said Julian. “Do not laugh,” said she, with a pained look. ‘I feel just now as if nothing is left for me but to return to Australia—to go home.” ‘Bertha, my wife, this is your home,” said he. “You must never think of any place but this as your home now. We shall stand side by side to the end.” They had not yet been a month together, and he was talking about the end coming. This was the language of the garrison of a fortress that is being besieged. The men _ talk bravely about standing side by side until the end comes, knowing that the end is not far off. Some moments passed before she spoke. ‘Yes,’ she cried bravely; ‘‘ we stand together, you and I—to the end—to the end!” “To the end!” he repeated, with her hand in his. She had spoken bravely—but he felt that he would rather she had spoken lovingly. Was she beginning to find out that the condition of marriage—leaving aside altogether the question of the marriage ceremony—was more or less of a compromise ? Before he had dropped her hand, the sound of wheels and hoofs was heard on the drive. “ More visitors !’’ said Bertha with a wearied look. He glanced out of the window. The vehicle had been pulled up at the porch, It was hidden by the projecting CEORMIE IOOKS (E(0)