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"A railway-carriage," said Brangwen

She laughed to herself

"I knoas a great scandal: yes--a whole wagon, and

they had girls, you know, filles, naked, all the

wagon-full, and so they caes of the Jews, and it was a great scandal Can

you iine? All the countryside! And my mother, she did not

like it Gisla said to me, 'Madas' "My mother, she used to cry, and she wished to beat my

father, plainly beat him He would say, when she cried because

he sold the forest, the wood, to jingle o to Warsaw or Paris or Kiev, when she said he must take back

his word, he must not sell the forest, he would stand and say,

'I know, I know, I have heard it all, I have heard it all

before TellI know, I know, I know' Oh, but

can you understand, I loved hi only, 'I know, I know, I know it all already' She

could not change hie everybody else, but hiwen could not understand He had pictures of a

cattle-truck full of naked girls riding fro because her fatherdown the street shouting in