text:  "Go on then " whispered her lover to the priest "be quick!" "_Co--co--conjungo vos_ " began Father Larr as he joined their hands "_in nom--nom_--(hic!)--_nomine P--p--patris_ (hic!) _et F--f--f--fil_--(hic!)"-- The rest of his articulation was effectually stopped by his receiving full in the face the contents of what he felt to be a basin of cold water conferred it appeared to him by the hands of the timid bride; while at the same time a voice that split the very room like thunder saluted the group with a blessing from the Virgin and St Patrick and Sally-the-tin stood beside them who however no sooner recognised Hewitt with whose grasp she had before now been familiar than she set up a shriek in which entreaty benediction curse complaint and consternation were so vociferously blended that it would have alarmed Erebus