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Will Brangwen had soe,

so the two took their honeyether

And to him, as the days went by, it was as if the heavens had

fallen, and he were sitting with her a the ruins, in a neorld, everybody else buried, the to squander as they would At first, he could

not get rid of a culpable sense of licence on his part Wasn't

there so hiht, when the doors were locked and

the darkness drawn round the two of them Then they were the

only inhabitants of the visible earth, the rest were under the

flood And being alone in the world, they were a law unto

themselves, they could enjoy and squander and waste like

conscienceless gods

But in the , as the carts clanked by, and children

shouted down the lane; as the hucksters ca their

wares, and the church clock struck eleven, and he and she had

not got up yet, even to breakfast, he could not help feeling

guilty, as if he were co a breach of the

law--asha what?" she asked "What is there to do? You will only

lounge about"

Still, even lounging about was respectable One was at least

in connection with the world, then Whereas now, lying so still

and peacefully, while the daylight cah the