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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: not a spider as likes a corner to myself. I like a man about,
if he's only something to snap at."
Clara began to work. Her jenny spun with a subdued buzz;
the white lace hopped from between her fingers on to the card.
It was filled; she snipped off the length, and pinned the end
down to the banded lace. Then she put a new card in her jenny.
Paul watched her. She sat square and magnificent. Her throat and
arms were bare. The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent
her head in shame of her humility. Her face was set on her work.
Her arms were creamy and full of life beside the white lace;
her large, well-kept hands worked with a balanced movement,
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