Miss Billy — Married

Name: Miss Billy — Married
Author: Eleanor H. Porter

by Eleanor H. Porter

Pages: about 276
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 5 h at 250 wpm

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From the opening

“'I, Bertram, take thee, Billy,'” echoed the tall young bridegroom, his eyes gravely tender.
“'To have and to hold from this day forward.'” Now the young voice rang with triumph. It had grown strong and steady.
“For richer for poorer,” droned the clergyman, with the weariness of uncounted repetitions.
“'For richer for poorer,'” avowed the bridegroom, with the decisive emphasis of one to whom the words are new and significant.
“'To love and to cherish.'” The younger voice carried infinite tenderness now.
“'Till death us do part,'” repeated the bridegroom's lips; but everybody knew that what his heart said was: “Now, and through all eternity.”
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.
This time the echoing voice was a feminine one, low and sweet, but clearly distinct, and vibrant with joyous confidence, on through one after another of the ever familiar, but ever impressive phrases of the service that gives into the hands of one man and of one woman the future happiness, each of the other.
The wedding was at noon. That evening Mrs. Kate Hartwell, sister of the bridegroom, wrote the following letter:
“MY DEAR HUSBAND:--Well, it's all over with, and they're married. I couldn't do one thing to prevent it. Much as ever as they would even listen to what I had to say--and when they knew how I had hurried East to say it, too, with only two hours' notice!
“But then, what can you expect? From time immemorial lovers never did have any sense; and when those lovers are such irresponsible flutterbudgets as Billy and Bertram--!
“And such a wedding! I couldn't do anything with that, either, though I tried hard. They had it in Billy's living-room at noon, with nothing but the sun for light.

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Miss Billy — Married

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