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machine out of work。〃

〃They know they are sold;〃 said Tom Brangwen。 〃Thats where

it is。 They know they are sold to their job。 If a woman talks

her throat out; what difference can it make? The mans sold to

his job。 So the women dont bother。 They take what they can

catch……and vogue la galere。〃

〃Arent they very strict here?〃 asked Miss Inger。

〃Oh; no。 Mrs。 Smith has two sisters who have just changed

husbands。 Theyre not very particular……neither are they

very interested。 They go dragging along what is left from the

pits。 Theyre not interested enough to be very immoral……it

all amounts to the same thing; moral or immoral……just a

question of pit…wages。 The most moral duke in England makes two

hundred thousand a year out of these pits。 He keeps the morality

end up。〃

Ursula sat black…souled and very bitter; hearing the two of

them talk。 There seemed something ghoulish even in their very

deploring of the state of things。 They seemed to take a ghoulish

satisfaction in it。 The pit was the great mistress。 Ursula

looked out of the window and saw the proud; demonlike colliery

with her wheels twinkling in the heavens; the formless; squalid

mass of the town lying aside。 It was the squalid heap of

side…shows。 The pit was the main show; the raison detre

of all。

How terrible it was! There was a horrible fascination

in it……human bodies and lives subjected in slavery to that

symmetric monster of the colliery。 There was a swooning;

perverse satisfaction in it。 For a moment she was dizzy。

Then she recovered; felt herself in a great loneliness;

where…in she was sad but free。 She had departed。 No more would

she subscribe to the great colliery; to the great machine which

has taken us all captives。 In her soul; she was against it; she

disowned even its power。 It had only to be forsaken to be inane;

meaningless。 And she knew it was meaningless。 But it needed a

great; passionate effort of will on her part; seeing the

colliery; still to maintain her knowledge that it was

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