Finally, the girl disengaged her hand and stepped forward--

"If you please, sir, are you a clergyman?"

Now this confused me a good deal; for, to tell the truth, I had worn

a white tie in my younger days, before. . . So I sat up and asked why

she wished to know.

"Because we want to be married."

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