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Sons and Lovers

CHAPTER V
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I wonder whoever bought ME a gold bangle." William was succeeding with his "Gipsy", as he called her.

He asked the girl--her name was Louisa Lily Denys Western--for a photograph to send to his mother.

The photo came--a handsome brunette, taken in profile, smirking slightly--and, it might be, quite naked, for on the photograph not a scrap of clothing was to be seen, only a naked bust.
"Yes," wrote Mrs.Morel to her son, "the photograph of Louie is very striking, and I can see she must be attractive.

But do you think, my boy, it was very good taste of a girl to give her young man that photo to send to his mother--the first?
Certainly the shoulders are beautiful, as you say.

But I hardly expected to see so much of them at the first view." Morel found the photograph standing on the chiffonier in the parlour.


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