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tumbled over his blue eyes。 He was so new and fresh and salt and

not of this world。

From Scarborough she went to her Uncle Toms。 Winifred had a

small baby; born at the end of the summer。 She had bee

strange and alien to Ursula。 There was an unmentionable reserve

between the two women。 Tom Brangwen was an attentive father; a

very domestic husband。 But there was something spurious about

his domesticity; Ursula did not like him any more。 Something

ugly; blatant in his nature had e out now; making him shift

everything over to a sentimental basis。 A materialistic

unbeliever; he carried it all off by being full of human

feeling; a warm; attentive host; a generous husband; a model

citizen。 And he was clever enough to rouse admiration

everywhere; and to take in his wife sufficiently。 She did not

love him。 She was glad to live in a state of placent

self…deception with him; she worked according to him。

Ursula was relieved to go home。 She had still two peaceful

years before her。 Her future was settled for two years。 She

returned to college to prepare for her final examination。

But during this year the glamour began to depart from

college。 The professors were not priests initiated into the deep

mysteries of life and knowledge。 After all; they were only

middle…men handling wares they had bee so accustomed to that

they were oblivious of them。 What was Latin?……So much dry

goods of knowledge。 What was the Latin class altogether but a

sort of second…hand curio shop; where one bought curios and

learned the market…value of curios; dull curios too; on the

whole。 She was as bored by the Latin curiosities as she was by

Chinese and Japanese curiosities in the antique shops。

〃Antiques〃……the very word made her soul fall flat and

dead。

The life went out of her studies; why; she did not know。 But

the whole thing seemed sham; spurious; spurious Gothic arches;

spurious peace; spurious Latinity; spurious dignity of France;

spurious naivete of Chaucer。 It was a second…hand dealers shop;

and one bought an equipment for an examination。 This was only a

little side…show to the factories of the town。 Gradually the

perception stole into her。 This was no religious retreat; no

perception of pure learning。 It was a little apprentice…shop

where one oney。 The college

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