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The last child, Toer than his

brothers, so had belonged rather to the company of his sisters

He was his mother's favourite She roused herself to

deterrammar-school in

Derby when he elve years old He did not want to go, and

his father would have given way, but Mrs Brangwen had set her

heart on it Her slender, pretty, tightly-covered body, with

full skirts, was now the centre of resolution in the house, and

when she had once set upon anything, which was not often, the

fa failure fro school for hiht because she would not acknowledge

his constitution He kneith a child's deep, instinctive

foreknowledge of what is going to happen to hiure at school But he took the infliction as

inevitable, as if he were guilty of his own nature, as if his

being rong, and his ht If he could

have been what he liked, he would have been that which his

mother fondly but deludedly hoped he was He would have been

clever, and capable of becoentleman It was her

aspiration for him, therefore he knew it as the true aspiration