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refining。 She caused the separateness and individuality of all

the Marsh inmates; the friability of the household。

When young Tom Brangwen was twenty…three years old there was

some breach between him and his chief which was never explained;

and he went away to Italy; then to America。 He came home for a

while; then went to Germany; always the same good…looking;

carefully…dressed; attractive young man; in perfect health; yet

somehow outside of everything。 In his dark eyes was a deep

misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he

wore his close…sitting clothes。

To Ursula he was a romantic; alluring figure。 He had a grace

of bringing beautiful presents: a box of expensive sweets; such

as Cossethay had never seen; or he gave her a hair…brush and a

long slim mirror of mother…of…pearl; all pale and glimmering and

exquisite; or he sent her a little necklace of rough stones;

amethyst and opal and brilliants and garnet。 He spoke other

languages easily and fluently; his nature was curiously gracious

and insinuating。 With all that; he was undefinably an outsider。

He belonged to nowhere; to no society。

Anna Brangwen had left her intimacy with her father

undeveloped since the time of her marriage。 At her marriage it

had been abandoned。 He and she had drawn a reserve between them。

Anna went more to her mother。

Then suddenly the father died。

It happened one springtime when Ursula was about eight years

old; he; Tom Brangwen; drove off on a Saturday morning to the

market in Nottingham; saying he might not be back till late; as

there was a special show and then a meeting he had to attend。

His family understood that he would enjoy himself。

The season had been rainy and dreary。 In the evening it was

pouring with rain。 Fred Brangwen; unsettled; uneasy; did not go

out; as was his wont。 He smoked and read and fidgeted; hearing

always the trickling of water outside。 This wet; black night

seemed to cut him off and make him unsettled; aware of himself;

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