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of cards. Her whole sexual feeling for him, or for any man,
collapsed that night. Her life fell apart from his as com-
pletely as if he had never existed.
And she went through the days drearily. There was noth-
ing now but this empty treadmill of what Clifford called
the integrated life, the long living together of two people,
who are in the habit of being in the same house with one
another.
Nothingness! To accept the great nothingness of life
seemed to be the one end of living. All the many busy and
important little things that make up the grand sum-total of
nothingness!
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
