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When Abbé Mouret had said the _Pater_, he bowed to the altar, and went to the Epistle side. Then he came down, and made the sign of the cross over big Fortune and Rosalie, who were kneeling, side by side, before the altar-rails.
‘_Ego conjungo vos in matrimonium, in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti_.'