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Don’t you fret, then, don’t you! Don’t you fret!’ she moaned
to him, while her own tears fell. And she drew him to her,
and held her arms round his great shoulders, while he laid
his face on her bosom and sobbed, shaking and hulking his
huge shoulders, whilst she softly stroked his dusky-blond
hair and said: ‘There! There! There! There then! There then!
Never you mind! Never you mind, then!’
And he put his arms round her and clung to her like a
child, wetting the bib of her starched white apron, and the
bosom of her pale-blue cotton dress, with his tears. He had
let himself go altogether, at last.
So at length she kissed him, and rocked him on her bo-
som, and in her heart she said to herself: ‘Oh, Sir Clifford!
Oh, high and mighty Chatterleys! Is this what you’ve come
down to!’ And finally he even went to sleep, like a child.
And she felt worn out, and went to her own room, where
she laughed and cried at once, with a hysteria of her own. It
was so ridiculous! It was so awful! Such a come-down! So
shameful! And it WAS so upsetting as well.
After this, Clifford became like a child with Mrs Bolton.
He would hold her h, and rest his head on her breast, and
when she once lightly kissed him, he said! ‘Yes! Do kiss me!
Do kiss me!’ And when she sponged his great blond body,
he would say the same! ‘Do kiss me!’ and she would lightly
kiss his body, anywhere, half in mockery.
And he lay with a queer, blank face like a child, with a
bit of the wonderment of a child. And he would gaze on
her with wide, childish eyes, in a relaxation of madonna-
worship. It was sheer relaxation on his part, letting go all

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