Peacey

He told her that Peacey had set up for himself in an inn, and that a widowed sister of his, named Susan Rodney, who also had been in the Torques 'service, was keeping house for him.

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Peacey, she understood in the light of this discovery, had desired her with a passion that, uncircumvented, would have swept him on to love and

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Roothing High Street under stones, or sat in the brown sunshine of the dusty room and watched Peacey stroking his fat thigh and talking of his dear dead mother; or felt his weight thresh down on her like the end of the world; or took into her arms for the first time the limp body of the other child.

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"What, Peacey?" she had cried, raising herself up on her elbow,

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Though Peacey had forbidden her to write to Susan Rodney, so that she had never been able to explain why she did not come and fetch Roger, he allowed Susan to write to her.

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She was left standing in the middle of the road, alone with Peacey.

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They might have been so happy together if the old people had not made her marry Peacey.

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When at nights she used to see in the blackness the little figure standing in his shirt, beating the dark air with his fists, as Susan told her he used to do when Peacey woke him suddenly out of his sleep to frighten him, her pity, was flavourless and abstract.

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It was no use wondering now whether or not Peacey had really murmured

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"Do you know, I was thinking so myself," Peacey had answered reflectively.

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