[feeling] safe himself," which has the effect of emboldening his flippancy with Mabel when asking what she is going to do with herself. Yet his sullenness in the face of the collapse of the life of plenty all of the Pervins had known speaks to the fact that he had not expected this interruption in the pattern his life. The text describes the "glazed look of helplessness in his eyes," with which he beholds the exodus of the horses he has cared for. What follows is a paragraph describing the leading-away of horses that have plenty of energy, attitude, and muscle in almost extravagant terms, "swinging their great rounded haunches sumptuously, and trotting a few sudden steps as they were led into the lane, round the corner. Every movement showed a massive, slumbrous strength, and a stupidity which held them in subjection" (Lawrence 1). The horses, Joe reflects, "were almost like his own body to him," and h
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