Sentence:  And now, to be usherhandled up the aisle, my ear pincered excruciatingly, my dear sweet Granny kvetching along behind, intoning half-Yiddish <WSD>gardyloos</WSD> about my certain future as either a demented hunchbacked bell-ringer, or a Cossack love-slave ... how ignominous! 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Caution, warning.