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LECTURE XIX.
MRS. CAUDLE THINKS "IT WOULD LOOK WELL TO KEEP THEIR WEDDING-DAY."
AUDLE, love, do you know what next Sunday is?
"No! You don't?
"Well, was there ever such a strange man! Can't you guess, darling? Next Sunday, dear? Think, love, a minute—just think.
"What! and you don't know now?
"Ha! if I hadn't a better memory than you, I don't know how we should ever get on. Well, then, pet,—shall I tell you what next Sunday is? Why, then, it's our wedding-day—— What are you groaning at, Mr. Caudle? I don't see anything to groan at. If anybody should groan, I'm sure it isn't you. No: I rather think it's I who ought to groan!
"Oh, dear! That's fourteen years ago. You were a very different man then, Mr. Caudle. What do you say——?
