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CHAPTER V
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THE DOMINANT1 MOTIF2 OF SUFFERING
The old woman lay still another year, then she suddenly sank out of life. George ceased to write to me, but I learned his news elsewhere. He became more and more intimate with the Mayhews. After old Mayhew's bankruptcy3, the two sons had remained on in the large dark house that stood off the Nottingham Road in Eberwich. This house had been bequeathed to the oldest daughter by the mother. Maud Mayhew, who was married and separated from her husband, kept house for her brothers. She was a tall, large woman with high cheek-bones and oily black hair looped over her ears. Tom Mayhew was also a handsome man, very dark and ruddy, with insolent4 bright eyes.
The Mayhews' house was called the "Hollies5." It was a solid building, of old red brick, standing6 fifty yards back from the Eberwich highroad. Between it and the road was an unkempt lawn, surrounded by very high black holly7 trees. The house seemed to be imprisoned8 among the bristling9 hollies. Passing through the large gate, one came immediately upon the bare side of the house and upon the great range of stables. Old Mayhew had in his day stabled thirty or more horses there. Now grass was between the red bricks, and all the bleaching10 doors were shut, save perhaps two or three which were open for George's horses.
The "Hollies" became a kind of club for the disconsolate
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