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an to be married to this man?〃 He felt
somebody touch him。 He started。 The words still re…echoed in his
memory; but were drawing off。
〃Me;〃 he said hastily。
Ann bent her head and smiled in her veil。 How absurd he
was。
Brangwen was staring away at the burning blue window at the
back of the altar; and wondering vaguely; with pain; if he ever
should get old; if he ever should feel arrived and established。
He was here at Anna's wedding。 Well; what right had he to feel
responsible; like a father? He was still as unsure and unfixed
as when he had married himself。 His wife and he! With a pang of
anguish he realized what uncertainties they both were。 He was a
man of forty…five。 Forty…five! In five more years fifty。 Then
sixty……then seventy……then it was finished。 My
God……and one still was so unestablished!
How did one grow old…how could one bee confident? He
wished he felt older。 Why; what difference was there; as far as
he felt matured or pleted; between him now and him at his own
wedding? He might be getting married over again……he and his
wife。 He felt himself tiny; a little; upright figure on a plain
circled round with the immense; roaring sky: he and his wife;
two little; upright figures walking across this plain; whilst
the heavens shimmered and roared about them。 When did one e
to an end? In which direction was it
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