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His lordship pronounced his assent to take to wife his destined prey (in the words "I will"), with a voice as audible as generally breaks forth from a mouth vacated by the inhabitants, its teeth.

Sarah Fielding

Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), British novelist. The History of the Countess of Dellwyn, bk. 1, ch. 1 (1759).

The wedding ceremony in which the young and beautiful Charlotte Lucum marries—for the promise of social advancement for herself and political gain for her father—the old debauchee Lord Lucum.

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