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Title: The Rainbow

Author: D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Release Date: May 23, 2009 [EBook #28948]

Language: English

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THE RAINBOW

BY D. H. LAWRENCE

THE

MODERN LIBRARY

NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY D. H. LAWRENCE

Random House is the publisher of

THE MODERN LIBRARY

BENNETT A. CERF :: DONALD S. KLOPFER :: ROBERT K. HAAS

Manufactured in the United States of America
Printed by Parkway Printing Company
Bound by H. Wolff

TO ELSE

CONTENTS

I How Tom Brangwen Married a Polish Lady
II They Live at the Marsh
III Childhood of Anna Lensky
IV Girlhood of Anna Brangwen
V Wedding at the Marsh
VI Anna Victrix
VII The Cathedral
VIII The Child
IX The Marsh and the Flood
X The Widening Circle
XI First Love
XXII Shame
XIII The Man's World
XIV The Widening Circle
XV The Bitterness of Ecstasy
XVI The Rainbow

THE RAINBOW

CHAPTER I

HOW TOM BRANGWEN MARRIED A POLISH LADY

I

The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in
the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder
trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Two miles
away, a church-tower stood on a hill, the houses of the little
country town climbing assiduously up to it. Whenever one of the
Brangwens in the fields lifted his head from his work, he saw
the church-tower at Ilkeston in the empty sky. So that as he
turned again to the horizontal land, he was aware of something
standing above him and beyond him in the distance.

There was a look in the eyes of the Brangwens as if they were
expecting something unknown, about which they were eager. They
had that air of readiness for what