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Sons and Lovers

CHAPTER IV
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He had whole periods, months, almost years, of friction and nasty temper.

Then sometimes he was jolly again.

It was nice to see him run with a piece of red-hot iron into the scullery, crying: "Out of my road--out of my road!" Then he hammered the soft, red-glowing stuff on his iron goose, and made the shape he wanted.

Or he sat absorbed for a moment, soldering.

Then the children watched with joy as the metal sank suddenly molten, and was shoved about against the nose of the soldering-iron, while the room was full of a scent of burnt resin and hot tin, and Morel was silent and intent for a minute.


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