"Another of his quips was, "Of all the banns of marriage I ever heard, none gave me half such pleasure as the union of ANN-CHOVY with good JOHN-DORY.

With jaunty steps he walked round and put up the banns, and then, with the air of a man who has completed a successful stroke of business, walked homewards.

"Banns up yet for the wedding?" inquired Mr. Smith, still gazing in front of him with fathomless eyes.

"And the banns go up next week," murmured the boarding-master to himself.

Get round young Teddy, and then put the banns up.

The idea in the mind of Mr. James Hardy when he concocted his infamous plot was that Jack Nugent would be summarily dismissed on some pretext by Miss Kybird, and that steps would at once be taken by her family to publish her banns together with those of Mr. Silk.

But she had had the banns put up, anyway, the Sunday before.

And I've ordered about the banns.

The banns were already put up.

I came here to tell you that they are seriously thinking of sending for the syndic, to publish the banns of marriage at the municipality and marry them legally, after which the Duca and Duchessa will go to Avellino, and leave them here together.

You must prevent them from publishing the banns until I come back, or until you hear from me.

You see, in the first place, there were no banns published in church, and there was no permission from the bishop to omit publishing them.

"Too late for what, may I ask?" "Everything except stopping the banns.

Banns at nineteen!" "It is nonsense, I agree; at the same time the minor consequences will be the hardest to deal with.

" There was no delay in crying the banns, and the lovers went about as in a dream of rapture.

The bishop refused to marry the woman to Allin till the banns had been asked three times, whereupon Robin pulled off the bishop's gown, and invested Little John in it, who asked the banns seven times, and performed the ceremony.

The bishop refused to marry the woman to Allin till the banns had been asked three times, whereupon Robin pulled off the bishop's gown, and invested Little John in it, who asked the banns seven times, and performed the ceremony.

" The next surprise for Jeannie Deans was the appearance of Reuben Butler, who had been appointed by the Duke of Argyle to the kirk of Knocktarlitie, at Roseneath; and within a reasonable time after the new minister had been comfortably settled in his living, the banns were called, and long wooing of Reuben and Jeannie was ended by their union in the holy bands of matrimony.

[Footnote 63: Two theatrical companies: the Duke's and the King's Housesboth full of every species of abominationat last united in 1686, and the most profligate poet of the age was fitly chosen to proclaim the banns.]

Great was the consternation when the banns of marriage between Henry Lorton and Henriette Clinton were published, the Sabbath preceding their wedding.

In the first half of that century the irregular and clandestine weddings, celebrated without banns or licence in the Fleet Prison, had been one of the crying scandals of the middle and lower classes; and in the second half, the nocturnal flittings to Gretna Green of young couples who could afford such a Pilgrimage of Passion lowered the whole conception of marriage.

The banns will be put up next Sunday, and in three weeks she will be Madame Beauvois.

So the banns were put up in church for three weeks, and all Cahokia was invited to the grand wedding.

] There was never such excitement in Clare as when those banns were read.

Whenever banns of marriage were proclaimed, immediately after the words 'This is the first, second, or third time of asking,' the old clerk shouted out, 'God speed them weel.'