May be, for I cannot say to a few pounds. I am dull of hearing.
Was this marriage ceremony, which you have been describing, exactly what the law and church of Scotland require on such occasions, as your certificate (as you call it) asserts?
O yes, it is in the old common form.
What! Do you mean in the old common form of the church of Scotland, fellow?
There is no prayer-book required to be produced, I tell you.
Will you answer me when I ask you, what do you mean by the old ordinary form of the church of Scotland, when this transaction has nothing whatever to do with that church? Were you never a clergyman of that country?
Never.
How long are you practising this delightful art?
Upwards of forty-eight years I am doing these marriages.
How old are you?