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They could hear Clym moving in the other room, as if disturbed by the knocking, and he uttered the word "Mother." "Yes he is awake he will go to the door," she said, with a breath of relief. "Come this way. I have a bad name with her, and you must not be seen. Thus I am obliged to act by stealth, not because I do ill, but because others are pleased to say so."
We must get some berries, or Clym will never believe in our preparations." Thomasin came down when the apples were collected, and together they went through the white palings to the heath beyond.
"I thought something was amiss, because of the boxes. I wonder you did not tell me sooner." "I ought to have done it. But I have been in doubt whether you would be pleased with my plan. I was not quite clear on a few points myself. I am going to take an entirely new course." "I am astonished, Clym. How can you want to do better than you've been doing?" "Very easily.
But do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life music, poetry, passion, war, and all the beating and pulsing that are going on in the great arteries of the world? That was the shape of my youthful dream; but I did not get it. Yet I thought I saw the way to it in my Clym." "And you only married him on that account?" "There you mistake me.
"Not unless you are my wife without regret." "I cannot answer you. I remember saying that I should be a serious matter on your hands." "Yes, I saw that." "Then you were too quick to see! No true lover would have seen any such thing; you are too severe upon me, Clym I don't like your speaking so at all." "Well, I married you in spite of it, and don't regret doing so.
The ticking of the clock was the only sound that greeted him, for not a soul remained; Christian, who acted as cook, valet, and gardener to Clym, sleeping at his father's house. Yeobright sat down in one of the vacant chairs, and remained in thought a long time. His mother's old chair was opposite; it had been sat in that evening by those who had scarcely remembered that it ever was hers.
Even as they watched the red began to assume a more livid colour, in the midst of which appeared a scarlet speck, smaller than a pea, and it was found to consist of a drop of blood, which rose above the smooth flesh of her ankle in a hemisphere. "I know what it is," cried Sam. "She has been stung by an adder!" "Yes," said Clym instantly. "I remember when I was a child seeing just such a bite.
She was not wrought to any great pitch of uneasiness by the probability of appearing in an ill light in the discussion between Clym and his mother, but she was wrought to vexation, and her slumbering activities were quickened to the extent of wishing that she had opened the door.
"It disturbs me, Clym, to find that you have come home with such thoughts as those. I hadn't the least idea that you meant to go backward in the world by your own free choice. Of course, I have always supposed you were going to push straight on, as other men do all who deserve the name when they have been put in a good way of doing well." "I cannot help it," said Clym, in a troubled tone.
You have come only to distress me, a lonely woman, and shorten my days! I wish that you would bestow your presence where you bestow your love!" Clym said huskily, "You are my mother. I will say no more beyond this, that I beg your pardon for having thought this my home. I will no longer inflict myself upon you; I'll go." And he went out with tears in his eyes.
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