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"And why not?"

"They're bagatelle," she said, using one of her atelles or billiards, it h"

But Anna was not to be won over She had a curious shrinking

fro lady of

her day She would not go into company because of the

ill-at-ease feeling other people brought upon her And she never

could decide whether it were her fault or theirs She half

respected these other people, and continuous disillusion

ht the

people she did not knoonderful Those she knew see her up in little falsities that

irritated her beyond bearing She would rather stay at ho it illusory

For at the Marsh life had indeed a certain freedoeness There was no fret about money, no ht, because

neither Mrs Brangwen nor Brangwen could be sensible of any

judgment passed on them from outside Their lives were too

separate

So Anna was only easy at home, where the common sense and the

supreme relation between her parents produced a freer standard

of being than she could find outside Where, outside the Marsh,

could she find the tolerant dignity she had been brought up in?

Her parents stood undiminished and unaware of criticise her her very

existence They seely reluctant to go ast them She depended upon her

o out