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"I could never die while there was a tree," she said

passionately, sententiously, standing before a great ash in

worship

It was the people who, soht menace

to her Her life at this ti fro to

other people, but she was never herself, since she had no self

She was not afraid nor ashamed before trees, and birds, and the

sky But she shrank violently from people, ashamed she was not

as they were, fixed, e, undefined

sensibility only, without forreat coirl was a lithe, farouche animal, who

mistrusted all approach, and would have none of the petty

secrecies and jealousies of schoolgirl intimacy She would have

no truck with the tame cats, nice or not, because she believed

that they were all only untamed cats with a nasty, untrustworthy

habit of tareat stand-back for Ursula, who suffered agonies

when she thought a person disliked her, no matter how much she

despised that other person How could anyone dislike her, Ursula

Brangwen? The question terrified her and was unanswerable She

sought refuge in Gudrun's natural, proud indifference

It had been discovered that Gudrun had a talent for drawing

This solved the probleirl's indifference to all study

It was said of her, "She can draw marvellously"

Suddenly Ursula found a queer awareness existed between

herself and her class-er The latter was a