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Sons and Lovers

CHAPTER IV
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Behind the counter stood two men--Mr.Braithwaite and his clerk, Mr.Winterbottom.

Mr.Braithwaite was large, somewhat of the stern patriarch in appearance, having a rather thin white beard.

He was usually muffled in an enormous silk neckerchief, and right up to the hot summer a huge fire burned in the open grate.

No window was open.

Sometimes in winter the air scorched the throats of the people, coming in from the freshness.


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