Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 29 Page 120

would fight with any man in the town — a garrison town — and was a little man too. But he wouldn’t work for anybody — set his heart against it, and wouldn’t.’

‘And how did you live then?’ asked Ursula.

He looked at her — then, suddenly, at Gudrun.

‘Do you understand?’ he asked.

‘Enough,’ she replied.

Their eyes met for a moment. Then he looked away. He would say no more.

‘And how did you become a sculptor?’ asked Ursula.

‘How did I become a sculptor — ’ he paused. ‘Dunque — ’ he resumed, in a changed manner, and beginning to speak French —