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Again there were drives, drives, drives; for Niels started work in the bush right after plowing. As always when he was driving, there was time to think, to brood . . .
At the very first, when his wife's revelations had hit him like so many hammer-blows, he had been stunned. Then, in life's first reaction against injury and death, he had been subject to sudden fits of rage, sudden wellings-up in him of primeval impulses, of the desire to kill, to crush . . .