The Trespasser: Original Text

By: Lawrence, D. H.

Siegmund, a musician at the local opera house, has fallen in love with a former pupil, Helena. She persuades him to go with her to the Isle of Wight for a few days, but happiness eludes them. Helena, dreaming of a great union of minds, rejects the physical intensity of Siegmund's love.'Take off that mute, do ' cried Louisa, snatching her fingers from the piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist.Helena looked slowly from her music.'My dear Louisa, ' she replied, 'it would be simply unendurable.' She stood tapping her white skirt with her bow in a kind of a pathetic forbearance.'But I can't understand it, ' cried Louisa, bouncing on her chair with the exaggeration of one who is indignant with a beloved. 'It is only lately you would even submit to muting your violin. At one time you would have refused flatly, and no doubt about it.''I have only lately submitted to many things, ' replied Helena, who seemed weary and stupefied, but still sententious. Louisa drooped from her bristling defiance.'At any rate, ' she said, scolding in tones too naked with love, I don't like

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08HGPZ1VW
• ISBN13: 9798677095269
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"