[Love Eternal by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookLove Eternal CHAPTER XVI 6/25
Don't they look pretty, and don't you wish that you were his age and that was someone else's daughter? I tell you, I do." Mr.Knight gurgled something in his inarticulate wrath, for at that moment he hated Isobel's father as much as he did Isobel, which was saying a great deal. "Well, my pretty pair of cooing turtle-doves," went on Sir John in a sort of shout, addressing himself to them, "be so good as to stop that, or I think I shall wring both your necks, damn you." "Not in this Holy House, which these infamous and shameless persons have desecrated with their profane embraces," interrupted Mr.Knight. "Yes, according to your ideas it will be almost a case of re-consecration.
You'll have to write to the bishop about it, Mr. Parson.
Oh! confound you.
Don't stand there like a couple of stuck pigs, but come out of that and let us have a little chat in the churchyard." Now, at the first words that reached their ears Godfrey and Isobel had drawn back from each other and stood side by side quite still before the altar, as a pair about to be married might do. They were dumbfounded, and no wonder.
As might be expected Isobel was the first to recover herself. "Come, my dear," she said in a clear voice to Godfrey, "my father and yours wish to speak to us.
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