Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


Our place was taken at the communion rails. Hearing a cautious
step behind me, I glanced over my shoulder: one of the strangers
-- a gentleman, evidently -- was advancing up the chancel. The
service began. The explanation of the intent of matrimony was gone
through; and then the clergyman came a step further forward, and,
bending slightly towards Mr. Rochester, went on.


"I require and charge you both (as ye will answer at the dreadful
day of judgment, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed),
that if either of you know any impediment why ye may not lawfully
be joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it; for be ye
well assured that so many as are coupled together otherwise than
God's Word doth allow, are not joined together by God, neither is
their matrimony lawful."

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