Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 23 Page 22

your enemies and your bows! A pretty picture you make of yourself. But it takes nobody in but yourself. I JEALOUS! I! What I say,’ her voice sprang into flame, ‘I say because it is TRUE, do you see, because you are YOU, a foul and false liar, a whited sepulchre. That’s why I say it. And YOU hear it.’

‘And be grateful,’ he added, with a satirical grimace.

‘Yes,’ she cried, ‘and if you have a spark of decency in you, be grateful.’

‘Not having a spark of decency, however — ’ he retorted.

‘No,’ she cried, ‘you haven’t a SPARK. And so you can go your way, and I’ll go mine. It’s no good, not the slightest. So you can leave me now, I don’t