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During those moments, the paralyzed Mr. Baines half slips off his bed and dies, a loss that gives rise to a highly unusual mixture of low comedy and high drama: “His face, neck, and hands were dark and congested; his mouth was open, and the tongue protruded between the black, swollen, mucous lips. . . . After having been unceasingly watched for fourteen years, he had, with an invalid’s natural perverseness, taken advantage of Sophia’s brief dereliction to expire. Say what you will, amid Sophia’s horror, and her terrible grief and shame, she had visitings of the idea: he did it on purpose!”

Guilt subdues the “forbidding, difficult, waspish, and even hedge-hog” Sophia, but not, as it happens, for long. The watchful Mrs. Baines (“for mothers, despite their reputation to the contrary, really are the blindest creatures”) fails to notice the signs of Sophia’s deepening involvement with Gerald Scales, and eventua

• Book Name: Arnold Bennett: The Old Wives' Tale pdf
• Author Name Arnold Bennett
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2000

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