This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The refined daughter of a «good old burgher family,» Gertrude Coppard meets a rough-hewn miner, Walter Morel, at a Christmas dance and falls into a whirlwind romance characterized by physical passion. But soon after her marriage to Walter, she realizes the difficulties of living off his meagre salary in a rented house. The couple fight and drift apart and Walter retreats to the pub after work each day. Gradually, Mrs. Morel's affections shift to her sons beginning with the oldest, William, and later with her second son, Paul.
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D. H. Lawrence. Sons & Lovers
Sons & Lovers
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Table of Contents
PART ONE. Chapter I. The Early Married Life of the Morels
Chapter II. The Birth of Paul, and Another Battle
Chapter III. The Casting Off of Morel—The Taking On of William
Chapter IV. The Young Life of Paul
Chapter V. Paul Launches Into Life
Chapter VI. Death in the Family
PART TWO. Chapter VII. Lad-and-Girl Love
Chapter VIII. Strife in Love
Chapter IX. Defeat of Miriam
Chapter X. Clara
Chapter XI. The Test on Miriam
Chapter XII. Passion
Chapter XIII. Baxter Dawes
Chapter XIV. The Release
Chapter XV. Derelict
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D. H. Lawrence
Chapter I The Early Married Life of the Morels
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“Th' gaffer come down to our stall this morning, an' 'e says, 'You know, Walter, this 'ere'll not do. What about these props?' An' I says to him, 'Why, what art talkin' about? What d'st mean about th' props?' 'It'll never do, this 'ere,' 'e says. 'You'll be havin' th' roof in, one o' these days.' An' I says, 'Tha'd better stan' on a bit o' clunch, then, an' hold it up wi' thy 'ead.' So 'e wor that mad, 'e cossed an' 'e swore, an' t'other chaps they did laugh.” Morel was a good mimic. He imitated the manager's fat, squeaky voice, with its attempt at good English.
“'I shan't have it, Walter. Who knows more about it, me or you?' So I says, 'I've niver fun out how much tha' knows, Alfred. It'll 'appen carry thee ter bed an' back.”'
