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第23部分(第6页)

〃What experience do I want; Aunt?〃 asked the boy。

And if Brangwens heart had not been hard and intact with

anger; like a precious stone; he would have agreed。

Will Brangwen went home strange and untouched。 He felt he

could not alter from what he was fixed upon; his will was set。

To alter it he must be destroyed。 And he would not be destroyed。

He had no money。 But he would get some from somewhere; it did

not matter。 He lay awake for many hours; hard and clear and

unthinking; his soul crystallizing more inalterably。 Then he

went fast asleep。

It was as if his soul had turned into a hard crystal。 He

might tremble and quiver and suffer; it did not alter。

The next morning Tom Brangwen; inhuman with anger spoke to

Anna。

〃Whats this about wanting to get married?〃 he said。

She stood; paling a little; her dark eyes springing to the

hostile; startled look of a savage thing that will defend

itself; but trembles with sensitiveness。

〃I do;〃 she said; out of her unconsciousness。

His anger rose; and he would have liked to break her。

〃You do…you do…and what for?〃 he sneered with contempt。 The

old; childish agony; the blindness that could recognize nobody;

the palpitating antagonism as of a raw; helpless; undefended

thing came back on her。

〃I do because I do;〃 she cried; in the shrill; hysterical way

of her childhood。 〃You are not my father……my father

is dead……you are not my father。〃

She was still a stranger。 She did not recognize him。 The cold

blade cut down; deep into Brangwens soul。 It cut him off from

her。

〃And what if Im not?〃 he said。

But he could not bear it。 It had been so passionately dear to

him; her 〃Father……Daddie。〃

He went about for some days as if stunned。 His wife was

bemused。 She did not understand。 She only thought the marriage

was impeded for wan

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