By George Bernard Shaw | Getting Married

By George Bernard Shaw | Getting Married

The ceremony was brisk. Shaw, true to form, attempted to interrupt the proceedings twice—once to question the phrasing of "lawful impediment" and again to suggest that the room’s ventilation was a crime against public health.

The morning of his wedding, George Bernard Shaw did not look like a man about to enter the "monstrous engine" of matrimony. Instead, he looked like a man who had misplaced a very important pamphlet on Fabianism. Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw

"Well, Mr. Shaw? Do you feel like a changed man? A pillar of the establishment?" The ceremony was brisk

Charlotte laughed, pulling him toward the carriage. "Only five thousand, George? You’re getting soft in your old age." Instead, he looked like a man who had

When it came time for the rings, Shaw fumbled. "A gold hoop," he muttered. "The smallest handcuff ever forged by man."

"You look remarkably like a prisoner waiting for the gaoler, George," Charlotte remarked, her eyes twinkling behind her spectacles.