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`` I do , sir , '' Gates answered . `` You consider that the emergency in every way justifies you to perform this ceremony of marriage ? '' `` I do , sir . '' `` Then , Jack , '' he turned to me , `` suppose we say high noon . It 's a fashionable hour , and gives you a little while to primp up . '' I gasped at him , unable to believe my ears ; but before I could speak Monsieur was again raving . `` It shall not ! ''