nursling。 He went about very quiet; and in a way; submissive。 He
had an unalterable self at last; free; separate;
independent。
She was relieved; she was free of him。 She had given him to
himself。 She wept sometimes with tiredness and helplessness。 But
he was a husband。 And she seemed; in the child that was ing;
to forget。 It seemed to make her warm and drowsy。 She lapsed
into a long muse; indistinct; warm; vague; unwilling to be taken
out of her vagueness。 And she rested on him also。
Sometimes she came to him with a strange light in her eyes;
poignant; pathetic; as if she were asking for something。 He
looked and he could not understand。 She was so beautiful; so
visionary; the rays seemed to go out of his breast to her; like
a shining。 He was there for her; all for her。 And she would hold
his breast; and kiss it; and kiss it; kneeling beside him; she
who was waiting for the hour of her delivery。 And he would lie
looking down at his breast; till it seemed that his breast was
not himself; that he had left it lying there。 Yet it was himself
also; and beautiful and bright with her kisses。 He was glad with
a strange; radiant pain。 Whilst she kneeled beside him; and
kissed his breast with a slow; rapt; half…devotional
movement。
He knew she wanted something; his heart yearned to give it
her。 His heart yearned over her。 And as she lifted her face;
that was radiant and rosy as a little cloud; his heart still
yearned over her; and; now from the distance; adored her。 She
had a flower…like presence which he adored as he stood far off;
a stranger。
The weeks passed on; the time drew near; they were very
gentle; and delicately happy。 The insistent; passionate; dark
soul; the powerful unsatisfaction in him seemed stilled and
tamed; the lion lay down with the lamb in him。
She loved him very much indeed; and he waited near her。 She
was a precious; remote thing to him at this time; as she waited
for her child。 Her soul was glad with an ecstasy because of the
ing infant。 She wanted a boy: oh; very much she wanted a
boy。
But she seemed so young and so frail。 She was indeed only a
girl。 As she stood by the fire washing herself……she was
proud to wash herself at this time……and he looked at her;