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He re with broad

Derbyshire accent, adhering with all his tenacity to his work

and to his town position,

fairly well-off But at drawing, his hand swung naturally in

big, bold lines, rather lax, so that it was cruel for hi fro and niggling He did

it stubbornly, with anguish, crushing the boithin hi to his chosen lot whatever it should cost And he caid, a rare-spoken, alhter of a chemist, who affected so of a snob, in his

dogged fashion, with a passion for outward refineross occurred Later,

when his three children were growing up, and he seee women, and

becalecting his indignant bourgeois ithout a qualm

Frank, the third son, refused fro Frohter-house which stood away in the third yard at the back

of the farwens had always killed their own ular butcher's

business in connection with the farm

As a child Frank had been drawn by the trickle of dark blood

that ran across the paveht of the e side of beef, with the kidneys showing,