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“Didn’t you now, Betti fach?” Rhys persisted. “Beautiful and useful is the cloth in the Shop that will do for your wedding gown. It is only half a crown a yard too. But there, don't you think any more about it. … Little white Jesus,forgive me for saying like this on the Sabbath. Dear me, forgetful male I was! Be with your Ruler in Sion. Amen.” “Sabbath or no Sabbath, Rhys Shop, I will not buy my wedding gown from you. To Carmarthen will I journey and get it from the grand shop of Llewellyn Shones in the market.”

Rhys then walked with Bertha Daviss, to whom he spoke these words: “Little Bertha, Abishag has gone by.” So Gwylim and Betti were married, and all in and around Lancoch having been sold and the house and the land having been rented, they went to live in the town of Carmarthen; and the house of their abode has ten stone steps in the front of