His anger, therefore, may be imagined when he discovered that he was not to officiate at a wedding which took place at his own cathedral, but was to be set aside for the Cardinal de Rochefoucault.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
I cam hame and reported my progress to my parent; but he wasna in the slightest degree dispirited; and next Sabbath, I got Andrew Waugh, a singin weaver o' the village, to officiate for me, under a pretence that I had caught a severe cauld.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
The Boarder, being shy and retiring, forbore to ask you, and Amarilly for some reason desired me to ask you if you would officiate, and I assured her you would gladly do so.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates