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The White Peacock
Set in the English countryside, it follows narrator Cyril Beardsall as he observes his sister Lettie caught in a love triangle between two suitors.
"The White Peacock" by D. H. Lawrence is a novel. Set in the English countryside, it follows narrator Cyril Beardsall as he observes his sister Lettie caught in a love triangle between two suitors.
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I stood watching the shadowy fish slide through the gloom of the mill-pond. They were grey, descendants of the silvery things that had darted away from the monks, in the young days when the valley was lusty. The whole place was gathered in the musing of old age. The thick-piled trees on the far shore were too dark and sober to dally with the sun; the weeds stood crowded and motionless. Not even a little wind flickered the willows of the islets. The water lay softly, intensely still. Only the thin stream falling through the mill-race murmured to itself of the tumult of life which had once quickened the valley.
I was almost startled into the water from my perch on the alder roots by a voice saying:
“Well, what is there to look at?” My friend was a young farmer, stoutly built, brown eyed, with a naturally fair skin burned dark and freckled in patches. He laughed, seeing me start, and looked down at me with lazy curiosity.
“I was thinking the place seemed old, brooding over its past.”
He looked at me with a lazy indulgent smile, and lay down on his back on the bank, saying: “It’s all right for a doss—here.”
“Your life is nothing else but a doss. I shall laugh when somebody jerks you awake,” I replied.
He smiled comfortably and put his hands over his eyes because of the light.
We were silent for a long time, when he rolled over and began to poke with his finger in the bank.
“I thought,” he said in his leisurely fashion, “there was some cause for all this buzzing.”
Contents
- 01Part I
- 02Chapter I the People of Nethermere
- 03Chapter II Dangling the Apple
- 04Chapter III a Vendor of Visions
- 05Chapter IV the Father
- 06Chapter V the Scent of Blood
- 07Chapter VI the Education of George
- 08Chapter VII Lettie Pulls Down the Small Gold Grapes
- 09Chapter VIII the Riot of Christmas
- 10Chapter IX Lettie Comes of Age
- 11Part II
- 12Chapter I Strange Blossoms and Strange New Budding
- 13Chapter II a Shadow in Spring
- 14Chapter III the Irony of Inspired Moments
- 15Chapter IV Kiss When She’s Ripe for Tears
- 16Chapter V an Arrow from the Impatient God
- 17Chapter VI the Courting
- 18Chapter VII the Fascination of the Forbidden Apple
- 19Chapter VIII a Poem of Friendship
- 20Chapter IX Pastorals and Peonies
- 21Part III
- 22Chapter I a New Start in Life
- 23Chapter II Puffs of Wind in the Sail
- 24Chapter III the First Pages of Several Romances
- 25Chapter IV Domestic Life at the Ram
- 26Chapter V the Dominant Motif of Suffering
- 27Chapter VI Pisgah
- 28Chapter VII Nethermthe Scarp Slopeere
- 29Chapter VIII a Prospect Among the Marshes of Lethe
- 30The End
- 31Transcribers Notes:
About this edition
- Author
- D. H. Lawrence
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 382 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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