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• D.H. Lawrence loved "yet, yet, yet......"

The Rocking Horse Winner-the first paragraph

There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them. They looked at her coldly, as if they were finding fault with her. And hurriedly she felt she must cover up some fault in herself. Yet what it was that she must cover up she never knew. Nevertheless, when her children were present, she always felt the centre of her heart go hard. This troubled her, and in her manner she was all the more gentle and anxious for her children, as if she loved them very much. Only she herself knew that at the centre of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love, no, not for anybody. Everybody else said of her: "She is such a good mother. She adores her children." Only she herself, and her children themselves, knew it was not so. They read it in each other's eyes.

• (E) centre <----> center (A)

-lise               -lize

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• Quiz

1.How many children does the mother have?
    a.    three
    b.    two
    c.    four
    d.    one
2.
What does the house whisper?
    a.    "We are breathing!"
    b.    "I know!"
    c.    "She is such a good mother."
    d.    "There must be more money!"
3.
What is the boy's name?
    a.    Oscar
    b.    Paul
    c.    Derby
    d.    Bassett
4.
Where does the boy want the rocking-horse to take him?
    a.    The story does not say.
    b.    where there is luck
    c.    where there is money
    d.    away from his family
5.
What is Bassett's position in the household?
    a.    He is the mother's brother.
    b.    He is the gardener.
    c.    He is the father's brother.
    d.    He is the tutor.