I Forbid the Banns! — page 390: what you’re looking at

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380 “7 FORBID THE BANNS!” of heaven would but indifferently compensate for her suffer- ings. God is so just that not only does he not answer the prayer of the widower, but he usually provides him with another wife of such strength of character as causes the sufferings of the first to be amply avenged. If ever a marriage is made in heaven, under the especial supervision of the highest powers therein, it is the marriage of the widower to a Woman of Determination, after he has ill treated his first wife. } “Give her back to me, grief. He would like to have another trial. But he does not get it. God knows man a little better than that. He may now and again give a man over for the devil to do his worst upon him; but he has never yet given the wife back to the husband whe 4has ill-treated her to death. he cries in his passion of Eomichooks co