Collected Short Stories

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D. H. Lawrence. Collected Short Stories

Collected Short Stories

Table of Contents

A MODERN LOVER

HER TURN

LOVE AMONG THE HAYSTACKS

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

NEW EVE AND OLD ADAM

RAWDON'S ROOF

STRIKE-PAY

THE BLUE MOCCASINS

THE MORTAL COIL

THE OLD ADAM

THE OVERTONE

THE PRINCESS

THE WITCH A LA MODE

THINGS

THE END

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D. H. Lawrence

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Muriel arched her eyelids with a fine flare of intelligence across at him, and laughed.

"Something like that," answered the other man, also indulgently, as became a healthy male towards one who lay limply in a chair and said clever nothings in a lazy drawl. Mersham noted the fine limbs, the solid, large thighs, and the thick wrists. He was classifying his rival among the men of handsome, healthy animalism, and good intelligence, who are children in simplicity, who can add two and two, but never xy and yx. His contours, his movements, his repose were, strictly, lovable. "But," said Mersham to himself, "if I were blind, or sorrowful, or very tired, I should not want him. He is one of the men, as George Moore says, whom his wife would hate after a few years for the very way he walked across the floor. I can imagine him with a family of children, a fine father. But unless he had a domestic wife--"

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