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At home, even so near as Cossethay, was the vicar, who spoke

the other, ,

both of which she could perceive, but could never attain to The

vicar moved in worlds beyond where her own menfolk existed Did

she not know her own h, but easy, native to the earth, lacking

outwardness and range of motion Whereas the vicar, dark and dry

and se of

being that eniality, seem dull and

local She knew her husband But in the vicar's nature was that

which passed beyond her knowledge As Brangwen had power over

the cattle so the vicar had power over her husband What was it

in the vicar, that raised him above the common men as man is

raised above the beast? She craved to know She craved to

achieve this higher being, if not in herself, then in her

children

That whicheven if he be little and

frail in body, just as any er than the bull, as it? It was not

money nor power nor position What power had the vicar over Towen--none Yet strip them and set them on a desert

island, and the vicar was the master His soul was master of the