Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London


"An' three couples was married the first week un the new church,"
Clara said. "First of all, Samuel Dundee an' Agnes Hewitt; the
next day Albert Mahan an' Minnie Duncan; an' by the week-end Eddie
Troy and Flo Mackintosh--all sailor-men, an' un sux weeks' time the
last of them back tull their ships an' awa', an' no one o' them
dreamin' of the wuckedness they'd been ot."


The Imp of the Perverse must have chuckled at the situation. All
things favoured. The marriages had taken place in the first week
of May, and it was not till three months later that the minister,
as required by law, made his quarterly report to the civil
authorities in Dublin. Promptly came back the announcement that
his church had no legal existence, not being registered according
to the law's demands. This was overcome by prompt registration;
but the marriages were not to be so easily remedied. The three
sailor husbands were away, and their wives, in short, were not
their wives.

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