`` `In sickness and in health.' ''

``To love and to cherish.''

`` `To love and to cherish.' '' The younger
voice carried infinite tenderness now.

``Till death us do part.''

`` `Till death us do part,' '' repeated the
bridegroom's lips; but everybody knew that what his
heart said was: ``Now, and through all eternity.''

``According to God's holy ordinance.''

`` `According to God's holy ordinance.' ''

``And thereto I plight thee my troth.''

`` `And thereto I plight thee my troth.' ''

There was a faint stir in the room. In one
corner a white-haired woman blinked tear-wet
eyes and pulled a fleecy white shawl more closely
about her shoulders. Then the minister's voice
sounded again.

``I, Billy, take thee, Bertram.''

`` `I, Billy, take thee, Bertram.' ''