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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: when she was there, as if he could not get a free deep breath,
as if there were something on top of him. She felt his desire
to be free of her.
In the evening he came back to her. They walked down the shore
in the darkness, then sat for a while in the shelter of the sandhills.
"It seems," she said, as they stared over the darkness of the sea,
where no light was to be seen--"it seemed as if you only loved me
at night--as if you didn't love me in the daytime."
He ran the cold sand through his fingers, feeling guilty
under the accusation.
"The night is free to you," he replied. "In the daytime I
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