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Category: May Sinclair

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

Though he plunged into work as another man might have plunged into dissipation, to drown the thought of her, you could see that he had no longer any interest in it; he no longer loved it. He attacked it with a fury that had more hate in it than love.

anger, bereavement, death, despair, emotion, grief, hate, widower

You can’t conceive the perverse ingenuity he could put into hiding his affections.

character, emotions, humor, humour

Though he plunged into work as another man might have plunged into dissipation, to drown the thought of her, you could see that he had no longer any interest in it; he no longer loved it. He attacked it with a fury that had more hate in it than love.

anger, bereavement, death, despair, emotion, grief, hate, widower