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Then a house, white, had a curious distinctness. How was it? Then she saw a village there were always houses passing. This was an old world she was still journeying through, winter-heavy and dreary. There was plough-land and pasture, and copses of bare trees, copses of bushes, and homesteads naked and work-bare. No new earth had come to pass. She looked at Birkin's face.
Since he had danced he was happy. But Gerald would talk to him. Gerald, in evening dress, sat on Birkin's bed when the other lay down, and must talk. 'Who are those two Brangwens? Gerald asked. 'They live in Beldover. 'In Beldover! Who are they then? 'Teachers in the Grammar School. There was a pause. 'They are! exclaimed Gerald at length. 'I thought I had seen them before.
Only she wept from fathomless depths of hopeless, hopeless grief, the terrible grief of a child, that knows no extenuation. Yet her voice had the same defensive brightness as she spoke to Birkin's landlady at the door. 'Good evening! Is Mr Birkin in? Can I see him? 'Yes, he's in. He's in his study. Ursula slipped past the woman. His door opened. He had heard her voice.
'What are you doing? she sang, in her casual, inquisitive fashion. 'Catkins, he replied. 'Really! she said. 'And what do you learn about them? She spoke all the while in a mocking, half teasing fashion, as if making game of the whole business. She picked up a twig of the catkin, piqued by Birkin's attention to it.
But really it was Ursula, it was the woman who was gaining ascendance over Birkin's being, at this moment. Gerald was becoming dim again, lapsing out of him. 'Do you know, he said suddenly, 'I went and proposed to Ursula Brangwen tonight, that she should marry me. He saw the blank shining wonder come over Gerald's face. 'You did? 'Yes.
And as she did so the eyes that peered at me from above the full and, somehow, displaced-looking cheeks bid in them a dim, misty, half-blind expression. "That must be Peter Birkin's mother-in-law," was my unspoken reflection.
Gudrun dismounted and they all made their farewell. They wanted to go apart, all of them. Birkin took his place, and the sledge drove away leaving Gudrun and Gerald standing on the snow, waving. Something froze Birkin's heart, seeing them standing there in the isolation of the snow, growing smaller and more isolated.
You know Winnie is astonishingly clever with that plasticine stuff. Hermione declares she is an artist. Gerald spoke in the usual animated, chatty manner, as if nothing unusual had passed. But Birkin's manner was full of reminder. 'Really! I didn't know that. Oh well then, if Gudrun WOULD teach her, it would be perfect couldn't be anything better if Winifred is an artist.
The simple way she assumed her rights in Birkin's room maddened and discouraged Ursula. There was a fatality about it, as if it were bound to be. Hermione lifted the cat and put the cream before him. He planted his two paws on the edge of the table and bent his gracious young head to drink. 'Siccuro che capisce italiano, sang Hermione, 'non l'avra dimenticato, la lingua della Mamma.
It was so inert, so coldly dead, a carcase, Birkin's bowels seemed to turn to ice. He had to stand and look at the frozen dead body that had been Gerald. It was the frozen carcase of a dead male. Birkin remembered a rabbit which he had once found frozen like a board on the snow. It had been rigid like a dried board when he picked it up.
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