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Sons and Lovers

CHAPTER VI
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He looked at her, but did not see her.

Then he began to say, in a dull voice, as if repeating a letter from dictation: "Owing to a leakage in the hold of this vessel, the sugar had set, and become converted into rock.

It needed hacking--" He was quite unconscious.

It had been his business to examine some such cargo of sugar in the Port of London.
"How long has he been like this ?" the mother asked the landlady.
"He got home at six o'clock on Monday morning, and he seemed to sleep all day; then in the night we heard him talking, and this morning he asked for you.

So I wired, and we fetched the doctor." "Will you have a fire made ?" Mrs.Morel tried to soothe her son, to keep him still.
The doctor came.


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