Chapter 23: In Dame Gossip’s Vein

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​​​​​​​⁠Right soon the London pot began to bubble. There was a marriage.

‘There are marriages by the thousand every day of the year that is not consecrated to prayer for the forgiveness of our sins,’ the Old Buccaneer, writing it with simple intent, says, by way of preface to a series of Maxims for men who contemplate acceptance of the yoke.

This was a marriage high as the firmament over common occurrences,