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When young Toenty-three years old there was

some breach between him and his chief which was never explained,

and he went away to Italy, then to America He caood-looking,

carefully-dressed, attractive youngIn his dark eyes was a deep

misery which he ith the sa clothes

To Ursula he was a ro beautiful presents: a box of expensive sweets, such

as Cossethay had never seen; or he gave her a hair-brush and a

long sli and

exquisite; or he sent her a little necklace of rough stones,

aarnet He spoke other

languages easily and fluently, his nature was curiously gracious

and insinuating With all that, he was undefinably an outsider

He belonged to nowhere, to no society

Anna Brangwen had left her intimacy with her father

undeveloped since the tie it

had been abandoned He and she had drawn a reserve between them

Anna went more to her mother

Then suddenly the father died