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GOING HOME from school in the afternoon, the Brangwen girls descended1 the hill between the picturesque2 cottages of Willey Green till they came to the railway crossing. There they found the gate shut, because the colliery train was rumbling3 nearer. They could hear the small locomotive panting hoarsely4 as it advanced with caution between the embankments. The one-legged man in the little signal-hut by the road stared out from his security, like a crab5 from a snail-shell.
Whilst the two girls waited, Gerald Crich trotted6 up on a red Arab mare7. He rode well and softly, pleased with the delicate quivering of the creature between his knees. And he was very picturesque, at least in Gudrun's eyes, sitting soft and close on the slender red mare, whose long tail flowed on the air. He saluted8 the two girls, and drew up at the crossing to wait for the gate, looking down the railway for the approaching train. In spite of her ironic9 smile at his picturesqueness10, Gudrun liked to look at him. He was well-set and easy, his face with its warm tan showed up his whitish, coarse moustache, and his blue eyes were full of sharp light as he watched the distance.
The locomotive chuffed slowly between the banks, hidden. The mare did not like it. She began to wince11 away, as if hurt by the unknown noise. But Gerald pulled her back and held her head to the gate. The sharp blasts of the chuffing engine broke with more and more force on her. The repeated sharp blows of unknown, terrifying noise struck through her till she was rocking with terror. She

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