Lady Chatterly’s
Lover
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This was in 1920. They returned, Clifford and Constance, to
his home, Wragby Hall, the family ‘seat’. His father had died, Clifford was now
a baronet, Sir Clifford, and Constance was Lady Chatterley. They came to start
housekeeping and married life in the rather forlorn home of the Chatterleys on
a rather inadequate income. Clifford had a sister, but she had departed.
Otherwise there were no near relatives. The elder brother was dead in the war.
Crippled for ever, knowing he could never have any children, Clifford came home
to the smoky Midlands to keep the Chatterley name alive while he could.
He was not really downcast. He could wheel himself about in
a wheeled chair, and he had a bath-chair with a small motor attachment, so he
could drive himself slowly round the garden and into the line melancholy park,
of which he was really so proud, though he pretended to be flippant about it.
Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to
some extent left him. He remained strange and bright and cheerful, almost, one
might say, chirpy, with his ruddy, healthy-looking face, arid his pale-blue,
challenging bright eyes. His shoulders were broad and strong, his hands were
very strong. He was expensively dressed, and wore handsome neckties from Bond
Street. Yet still in his face one saw the watchful look, the slight vacancy of
a cripple.
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