David Herbert Lawrence

The Ladybird David Herbert Lawrence

How many swords had Lady Beveridge in her pierced heart! Yet there always seemed room for another. Sinceshe had determined that her heart of pity and kindness should never die. If it had not been for thisdetermination she herself might have died of sheer agony, in the years 1916 and 1917, when her boys werekilled, and her brother, and death seemed to be mowing with wide swaths through her family.