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THE KNOT THERE'S NO UNTYING.
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'I do hope he'll come in time!' continued the bride-elect, inventing a new cause of affright, now that the other was demolished.

''Twould be a thousand pities if he didn't come, now you be so brave,' said Mrs. Penny.

Grandfather James, having overheard some of these remarks, said downstairs with mischievous loudness:

'I've heard that at some weddings the men don't come.'

'They've been known not to, before now, certainly,' said Mr. Penny, cleaning one of the glasses of his spectacles.

'O, do hear what they're saying downstairs,' whispered Fancy. 'Hush, hush!'

She listened.

'They have, haven't they, Geoffrey?' continued grandfather James, as Geoffrey entered.

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