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You can obviously see the difference of the emotional dynamic between the women and the men in this novel. He had to defend himself and his own insufficiency. She looked and looked at the baby, and almost hated it, and suffered an anguish of love for it. Stars Rachel Atkins as Louisa, Cathy Sara as Mary, Gillian Goodman as Mrs Lindley, David Timson as Mr Lindley and Robert Pickavance as Mr Massey. Yet she had her fixed will to love, to have the man she loved. There was an ease, a go-as-you-please about the day underground, a delightful camaraderie of men shut off alone from the rest of the world, in a dangerous place, and a variety of labour, holing, loading, timbering, and a glamour of mystery and adventure in the atmosphere, that made the pit not unattractive to him when he had again got over his anguish of desire for the open air and the sea. But that doesn't matter, does it? He looked at her very keenly.

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The clergyman was just going to knock when he heard a clinking noise, and turning saw through the open door of a black shed just behind him an elderly woman in a black lace cap stooping among reddish big cans, pouring a very bright liquid into a tundish. The setting where the novel takes place, is in the late nineteenth century, society children inherited their parents social and economical world but also they inherit their outlook on life. They might have been an eternity, they might have been brief as a sleep. He was just an ordinary young man, who had been to Cambridge and taken orders. She shifted her heavy form irritably on the couch. Mary carried her child upstairs, followed by her husband with the pillows. For, in it all Mr Massy seemed to have no sense of any person, any human being whom he was helping: he only realized a kind of mathematical working out, solving of given situations, a calculated well-doing.

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Now he was taciturn, and inert. His involvement with the Lindley family only serves to bring him further disquiet. Miss Louisa wanted to die, she wanted to have done. He had no particular character, having always depended on his position in society to give him position among men. It made it impossible for her to approach him.

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She was not wise enough to see how much he lived by her. It seemed the days would be colder since he had gone. It was as if the darkness were coming upon her. Louisa ran with more hot flannels, replacing those from the oven shelves. It had nothing to do with his thoughts. Double Measure: A Study of the Novels and Stories of D.

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They had no use for him in their lives, and they told him so, callously. But she was not going to submit. Yet something stirred in him, like anger, when the housekeeper placed herself in it. She was suddenly aware that she needed something to hold on to. This is apparent in the introduction of the Lindley family. Her private life was her shame.

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He was strung tight with apprehension and many emotions. And she hated the military discipline--she was antagonistic to it. There was about her, too, that masterful aplomb of a woman who has brought up and ruled her sons: but even them she had ruled unwillingly. Her chief attraction was her glistening, heavy, deep-blond hair, which shone and gleamed with a richness that was not entirely foreign to her. The latter stood nervously, as if ill at ease before the emotion that was running. She had enjoyed managing her little haberdashery-shop, riding in the carrier's cart to Nottingham, going through the big warehouses to buy her goods. She elected a certain kind of fate.

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On Sunday morning the whole family, except the mother, went down the lane to church, the long-legged girls in skimpy frocks, the boys in black coats and long, grey, unfitting trousers. As an adult the prose seems more difficult to feel but is has sharpened my appetite for revisiting more of Lawrence's work. At last she disengaged herself. They've never found it, so they want to say it doesn't exist. They had no use for him in their lives, and they told him so, callously. Her eyes met those of the clergyman.

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His life was polarized on his mother and he has never had a relationship with women, he was even afraid of them. The water in which his arms were plunged was quite black, the soap-froth was darkish. He slid down the steep path to the level below. Louisa went on with her preparations for the meal. She could not see him, she could not even know him. She remained in her little round arm-chair by the fire.