THE BRANGWEN family was going to move from Beldover. It was necessary now for the father to be in town.
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Birkin had taken out a marriage licence, yet Ursula deferred from day to day. She would not fix any definite time -- she still wavered. Her month’s notice to leave the Grammar School was in its third week. Christmas was not far off.
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Gerald waited for the Ursula-Birkin marriage. It was something crucial to him.
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`Shall we make it a double-barrelled affair?’ he said to Birkin one day.
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`Who for the second shot?’ asked Birkin.
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`Gudrun and me,’ said Gerald, the venturesometwinkle in his eyes.
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Birkin looked at him steadily, as if somewhat taken aback.
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`Serious -- or joking?’ he asked.
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`Oh, serious. Shall I? Shall Gudrun and I rush in along with you?’
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`Do by all means,’ said Birkin. `I didn’t know you’d got that length.’
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`What length?’ said Gerald, looking at the other man, and laughing.
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`Oh yes, we’ve gone all the lengths.’
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`There remains to put it on a broad social basis, and to achieve a high moral purpose,’ said Birkin.
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`Something like that: the length and breadth and height of it,’ replied Gerald, smiling.
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`Oh well,’ said Birkin,’ it’s a very admirable step to take, I should say.’
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Gerald looked at him closely.
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`Why aren’t you enthusiastic?’ he asked. `I thought you were such dead nuts on marriage.’
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Birkin lifted his shoulders.
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`One might as well be dead nuts on noses. There are all sorts of noses, snub and otherwise--’
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Gerald laughed.
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`And all sorts of marriage, also snub and otherwise?’ he said.
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`That’s it.’
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`And you think if I marry, it will be snub?’ asked Gerald quizzically, his head a little on one side.
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Birkin laughed quickly.
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`How do I know what it will be!’ he said. `Don’t lambaste me with my own parallels--’
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Gerald pondered a while.
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`But I should like to know your opinion, exactly,’ he said.
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`On your marriage? -- or marrying? Why should you want my opinion? I’ve got no opinions. I’m not interested in legal marriage, one way or another. It’s a mere question of convenience.’
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Still Gerald watched him closely.
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`More than that, I think,’ he said seriously. `However you may be bored by the ethics of marriage, yet really to marry, in one’s own personal case, is something critical, final--’
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`You mean there is something final in going to the registrar with a woman?’
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`If you’re coming back with her, I do,’ said Gerald. `It is in some way irrevocable.’
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`Yes, I agree,’ said Birkin.
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`No matter how one regards legal marriage, yet to enter into the married state, in one’s own personal instance, is final--’
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`I believe it is,’ said Birkin, `somewhere.’
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`The question remains then, should one do it,’ said Gerald.
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Birkin watched him narrowly, with amused eyes.
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`You are like Lord Bacon, Gerald,’ he said. `You argue it like a lawyer - or like Hamlet’s to-be-or-not-to-be. If I were you I would not marry: but ask Gudrun, not me. You’re not marrying me, are you?’
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Gerald did not heed the latter part of this speech.
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`Yes,’ he said, `one must consider it coldly. It is something critical. One comes to the point where one must take a step in one direction or another. And marriage is one direction--’
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`You mean if you knew the alternative?’ asked Birkin. `And since you don’t know it, marriage is a pis aller.’
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Gerald looked up at Birkin with the same hot, constrained eyes.