Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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"I got these from that stall where y'ave ter get them marbles in them holes. An' I got these two in two goes-'aepenny a go-they've got moss-roses on, look here. I wanted these." She knew he wanted them for her. "H'm!" she said, pleased. "They ARE pretty!" "Shall you carry 'em, 'cause I'm frightened o' breakin' 'em?" He was tipful of excitement now she had come, led her about the ground, showed her everything. Then, at the peep-show, she explained the pictures, in a sort of story, to which he listened as if spellbound. He would not leave her. All the time he stuck close to her, bristling with a small boy's pride of her. For no other woman looked such a lady as she did, in her little black bonnet and her cloak. She smiled when she saw women she knew. When she was tired she said to her son: "Well, are you coming now, or later?" "Are you goin' a'ready?" he cried, his face full of reproach. "Already? It is past four, I know." "What are you goin' a'ready for?" he lamented. "You needn't come if you don't want," she said. And she went slowly away with her little girl, whilst her son stood |
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