The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-21

without answering q word, she rose from
ner knees, returned TO her chair, sat down, and
pressed her hand over her eyes. Thys also
! took q seat, and continue cody and calmly
LOOK you here, Cecilia. Before make up
my mind 60 proceed to the uttermost with you,
III try this once more to seeif can make you
hear reason / really can't make you ont.
It's every girls destination to bo married, q
| little sooner or little later. What can it sig
nifty what her husband's name is, so that he's
| in case to keep his wife comfortably and make
her life PLEASANT And that shall be able to
do that you don't for moment Doubt L
think. No doubt young people are apt TO nave
friendship, and to think of them as things
that have Q real and great worth in lie out,
take my word for it, that's all dream,-a
dream that passes away with the idisness OF
youth. There's only one thing that keeps it's
value throughout, chat supplies the place OF
everything, and is, in fact the inexhaustible
fund from which everything comes. That one
thing is money. Well, now, money We shall
have enough of and to spare 30 what can
there be to be anxious or sad about BE-
cause there will be no love, esteem, friendship,
ter in our married lief What's the worth of
o bucket of water to the owner of the spring
from which it all flows and fows on foreverf
You don't answer me; bat understand well
enough what you would answer you would
say that it's not merely that you don't love
me, but that you downright hate me. But hs-
tred-what is hatredf dream!-ea feeling
that, just like love, grows up and passes away
with It's cause. You hate me because tor
ment you don't You 2 Well, then. marry me,
and you shall see how pleasant l'll make my
self; and your hatred will pass off along with
the reasons that you have for it. Well, what
say you must get angry again, and fetch
the words out of you with hard knocksf"
At this last question, uttered in a tone of
trembfe violently. In a tone of piteous en-
"Ob, forgive me! cannot speak otherwise
than as l feel Look you, Thys I; you don't
know u hat il ia Sit tbuA alone hera for
whole days together, thinking and dreaming
and suffering The spirit takes deep look into
things as they really are, and gets at great
deal that else it would quite pass by. Do you
know, Thys, what marriage 50
"Why, of course, it's partnership of two
people who lay their chances in life together
swered Thys; just neither more nor less than
two people in business put their capitals
together that they may drive greater trade"
'Would to God it were but that!" she re-
piled, signing "then perhaps might bring
myself to DO as you wish"
cit is nothing else, take my word for it,"
reiterated Thys.
mo, no it is the annihilation of the wo-
mans individual personality" she went on,
with vehement emphasis ; IAN aunihilation
to which Gods law, and the feeling of duty,
and memorable necessity, alike subject her
AS am, unmarried, 1 am at least an indepen-
dent being have a will of my own, and may
resist you without shining against God and my
conscience and if in the end die of broken
find the reoompense Of my sufferings in an
other world. But once married to you, once
your wife, then l must carry out all your
wishes, subject myself in everything to your
will, belong TO you, in fact, q slave to q
master; ana that it is that makes me shudder
at the thought alone of what you want of
me-"
Tnis discourse seemed to throw Thys into |
utter astunishment, not so much at the matter |
of it as at the calm and earnest tone and /
manner in which it was delivered: 1t was
with intense irritation that he beheld such an |
ex addition of steadfastness and independent |
will in one whom he had regarded as at last |
utterly worn-out and broken. He soon recover
ed himself, however, and in few moments an
swered, with u jeeriug laugh:
Now / understand you Upon my word
you see deeply into things! Why believe
You'd be capable, if yoa did marry me. of re-
fGs'Lg me the wedding kiss
" An cried she, despairirgiy, ''Fhe Wedding !
kiss from 1on! that would XIII me! Add II
after that | could live a single day, sbonld |
hate my self then more than hate yon 10 y =
Tnys from his seat, aud, looking her |
fall ia the face, with savusrsnile:
$50 you'll rather die, theuf' he said; "die |
slowly, BIT By bit, as Il yon ~eIe being pr!cked |
to death with pins r.
She gave him no a. s~er, aud he too no g vas
silent, and remained for considerable inter |
val deeply lap-ed Ia rhought at last, IN a /
careless tone, he resumed
- so be II, then | there's hope what |
ever Of bringing yoU TO r1a.on I must get my |
ends alott way. 1 suppose yOu don't |
know wh1Gher ny hagecs are Of deah or of |
ron. and | shall h ave chow yD1. However, !
for SnIs morning we've had enough ct II, aad
ven the rest for the afternoon. Do Won
til nix over in Sne mean while, what m arr age
- perhaps It may De o: some Gss 10 yoa IN the
Other Sorid!'
Ard a. he spoke these la4. words he stepped
up 10 she outer door, add stood for moment
N sas threshold, suxIousiy boxing about him
II every direction
That accarsed q1ean is rot there now:
saAEp'. the word" at last he n1ttered and
Iken, turniog back toward the room. and ad
dressing himself 10 Cecilia, with Vengeance
aasnInE in HE eyes:
II have TO 20 out for a few moments" said
be. DO you bolt the door inside. Perhaps
Frank DAinckx will be coming TO pay his in
ierest hat's due; if he does, make him wait
And If you open the door TO another soul alive
He raised his hand, crooked his fingers to-
Rether like claws. aud, with a motion as of
grasping her by the throat, and a murderous
e pressiun on his cpuntenance:
- You understand mel he SAID.
And with these words he left her, trembling
WITH terror aud the agitation OF the seem,
and proceeded along the foogpath toward toe