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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: And when their eyes met, she smiled. He worked away again mechanically,
producing good stuff without knowing what he was doing.
Sometimes he came in, very pale and still, with watchful,
sudden eyes, like a man who is drunk almost to death. They were
both afraid of the veils that were ripping between them.
Then she pretended to be better, chattered to him gaily,
made a great fuss over some scraps of news. For they had both come
to the condition when they had to make much of the trifles, lest they
should give in to the big thing, and their human independence would
go smash. They were afraid, so they made light of things and were gay.
Sometimes as she lay he knew she was thinking of the past.
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