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greeny…pink; tiny buds for bread…and…cheese; to play at teaparty

with; over she went for them。

Then suddenly; perhaps the next day; her soul would almost

start out of her body as her father turned on her; shouting:

〃Whos been tramplin an dancin across where Ive just

sowed seed? I know its you; nuisance! Can you find nowhere else

to walk; but just over my seed beds? But its like you; that

is……no heed but to follow your own greedy nose。〃

It had shocked him in his intent world to see the zigzagging

lines of deep little foot…prints across his work。 The child was

infinitely more shocked。 Her vulnerable little soul was flayed

and trampled。 Why were the foot…prints there? She had not

wanted to make them。 She stood dazzled with pain and shame and

unreality。

Her soul; her consciousness seemed to die away。 She became

shut off and senseless; a little fixed creature whose soul had

gone hard and unresponsive。 The sense of her own unreality

hardened her like a frost。 She cared no longer。

And the sight of her face; shut and superior with

self…asserting indifference; made a flame of rage go over him。

He wanted to break her。

〃Ill break your obstinate little face;〃 he said; through

shut teeth; lifting his hand。

The child did not alter in the least。 The look of

indifference; plete glancing indifference; as if nothing but

herself existed to her; remained fixed。

Yet far away in her; the sobs were tearing her soul。 And when

he had gone; she would go and creep under the parlour sofa; and

lie clinched in the silent; hidden misery of childhood。

When she crawled out; after an hour or so; she went rather

stiffly to play。 She willed to forget。 She cut off her childish

soul from memory; so that the pain; and the insult should not be

real。 She asserted herself only。 There was not nothing in the

world but her own self。 So very soon; she came to believe in the

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