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bleeding also with desire to have his father again; to see him;

to hear him again。 He could not bear it。

Tom Brangwen only arrived on the day of the funeral。 He was

quiet and controlled as ever。 He kissed his mother; who was

still dark…faced; inscrutable; he shook hands with his brother

without looking at him; he saw the great coffin with its black

handles。 He even read the name…plate; 〃Tom Brangwen; of the

Marsh Farm。 Born 。 Died 。〃

The good…looking; still face of the young man crinkled up for

a moment in a terrible grimace; then resumed its stillness。 The

coffin was carried round to the church; the funeral bell tanged

at intervals; the mourners carried their wreaths of white

flowers。 The mother; the Polish woman; went with dark; abstract

face; on her sons arm。 He was good…looking as ever; his face

perfectly motionless and somehow pleasant。 Fred walked with

Anna; she strange and winsome; he with a face like wood; stiff;

unyielding。

Only afterwards Ursula; flitting between the currant bushes

down the garden; saw her Uncle Tom standing in his black

clothes; erect and fashionable; but his fists lifted; and his

face distorted; his lips curled back from his teeth in a

horrible grin; like an animal which grimaces with torment;

whilst his body panted quick; like a panting dogs。 He was

facing the open distance; panting; and holding still; then

panting rapidly again; but his face never changing from its

almost bestial look of torture; the teeth all showing; the nose

wrinkled up; the eyes; unseeing; fixed。

Terrified; Ursula slipped away。 And when her Uncle Tom was in

the house again; grave and very quiet; so that he seemed almost

to affect gravity; to pretend grief; she watched his still;

handsome face; imagining it again in its distortion。 But she saw

the nose was rather thick; rather Russian; under its transparent

skin; she remembered the teeth under the carefully cut moustache

were small and sharp and spaced。 She could see him; in all his

elegant demeanour; bestial; almost corrupt。 And she was

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