she calls him but i couldn t have him just fancy giving up dear edward i assure you i believe he would kill himself if i did he has often told me i am the only thing worth living for looked at her beautiful sister her good sense telling her that if olive was not intended for him it was wrong to allow her to continue her but for the moment the consideration of her own misfortunes absorbed her was there nothing in life for a girl but marriage and was marriage no more than a gratification did a man seek nothing but a beautiful body that he could kiss and enjoy did a man s desires never turn to with one who could with his hopes comfort him in his fears and united by that most profound and penetrating of all � that of the soul � be in life s work could no man love as she did she was ready to allow that marriage owned a material as well as a spiritual aspect and that neither could be overlooked some therefore though their souls were as beautiful as the day were from purely physical causes from entering into the marriage state was such a one now what are you thinking about p i do not know nothing in particular one doesn t know always of what one is thinking tell me what they are saying downstairs but i have told you that captain pre by muslin my hair like this and i asked you if you thought he was right but you hardly looked yes i did olive i think the fashion suits you you won t tell anybody that i told you he kissed me oh i had forgotten about lord he f has been fired at lord returned from and he brought the evening paper with him it is full of bad news what news v asked with a view to escaping from questions and olive told her a s house had been broken into by an armed gang they dragged him out of his bed and shot him in the legs before his own door and an attempt has been made to blow up a landlord s house with and in queen s county shots have been fired through a dining room window � now what else i am telling you a lot i don t often remember what is in the paper no end of were burnt last week and some cattle have had their tails cut off and a great many people have been beaten lord says he doesn t know how it will all end unless the government bring in a act what do you think dropped some formal remarks and olive hoped that the state of the country would not affect the castle s season she didn t know which of the st girls would be married first she asked to guess said she couldn t guess and fell to thinking that nobody would ever want to marry her it was as if some instinct had told her and she could not drive the word out of her ears it seemed to her that she w by muslin as that odious lord would say she did not remember that she had ever been so unhappy before and it seemed to her that she would always be unhappy d but to her surprise she awoke in a more cheerful mood and when she came down to breakfast mr raised his head from the newspaper and asked her if she had heard that lord had been fired at yes father olive told me so and the conversation turned on her headache and then on the state of ireland mrs asked if this last outrage would prove sufficient to force the government to pass a new bill i wish they would put me at the head of an army mr said whose thoughts had gone back to his the of the t papa would look fine leading the against the tenants dressed in caesar s big red cloak cried mrs turning back as she glided out of the room already deep in consideration of what would like to eat for luncheon and the gown she would wear that afternoon mr threw the newspaper aside and returned to his and in the girls room olive and the bland soft smiling maid began their morning gossip whatever subject was started it generally wound round to captain had wearied of his name but this morning she pricked up her ears she was surprised to hear her sister say she had forbidden him ever to visit the by muslin at that moment the dull sound of distant firing broke the stillness of the snow i took good care to make captain promise not to go to this shooting party the last time i saw him and what harm was there in his going to this shooting party said what harm i suppose miss you have heard what kind of woman mrs is ask you shouldn t talk in this way olive we know well enough that mrs was not a lady before she married but nothing can be said against her since � oh can t there indeed you never heard the story about her and her steward ask oh don t miss you shouldn t really said the maid what will miss think � never mind what she thinks you tell her about the steward and all the officers from and then mrs s were talked of until the bell rang for lunch and mrs had just passed into the dining room and noticed that his eyes often wandered in the direction of the walking up and down the terrace he returned more frequently than was necessary to the attempt made on lord life and it was a long time before mrs could persuade him to drop a french at last in answer to her allusions 