New-York tribune., 1884-10-12

| don, His smooth long, tTaho"h '''" ""H
| me a vast emotonlcss gravity, and ho'n'ns "'o'''
| Later on he impressed me less as man 'h"'' 40
kind of incarnato human silence. have noth'he
,,r,hor to writ, reg ,rding him pcrsonalv He may
| have been "A very noteworthy mental iorcc. ana
nm inclined 10 believe that he was. bnt saw nun
| only through his effects. ! saw what he ma" ooho
| To the woman whom he had married. LlNo s'""'''
electricity or any natural power wh'cn we p'"So
solev by its results. learned to feel for him
solid, wholesome respect
| The change from Julia Clymcr to Mrs. h'hs"o"
smply asoundcd me. shall never iorget 'ho a''"'
roon that droppcd INTO her pretty drawing room
| 10 drink tea with her She was outwaroiy J",' '''
| same She laughed. smiled. spoke, walked Win 'ho
| ,ame characteristic. individual charm. Nut every
,o,ch of the old frivolity had fed from her ih'rr
werc scvcr,l ladies present. had never seen any o
thcm before: they were all elderly ladies' a"u '"'N
| had hy no means fashionable ap'arahoo' 81,
| amazed whle | heard birs. Kingdom say to one 'I
| them:
| aWhat you told me. inst now, Mrs h"w'o
| m,mc,, bciorc Mr. Manhattan cntercd-i cannot
vr,n, that entirely indorSc. The strongly ''h''a
| and humane clcmcn, in George Eliot's writings ap-
roars ,o mo sunic,cn, in itself " the pciStic mo-
,iyo he lacking ir IN il the religious one * not Ihc
| brilliant Huxley somewhere says-i forget just
| whero-that the clergy are now divided mt" ihteo
| sccl ions: an immense boiy who are lHh'rah' "'"
| speak out: u small proportion VINO hh"" ana al"
| si,cnt. and a minute minority who know and speak
! according 10 their know ledge. Though not of the
| clergy, think George Eliot knows and speaks ac-
! corling to her knowledge. But she puts no rc-
straint upon grand moral feeling. Her text s ao-
| stract righteousness. and it does not necd tho
| authority of any dead prophet or preacher -
| Not long afterward she SAID to another OF the
| ladies:
| "Yes. nv instincts are all truly republican, But
an always aycrso to the least violence III the way
| of forcing human Development Comte has ex
pressed his aversion to this tamperng with the SLOW
anelioratOn OF humanity by direct progressive law
! Russia only rivcts her bonds closer for century
| each time she massacres a Car. Herbert Spencer
| is of the same opinion You remember. he
drew 80 much from Comtc For my part. con-
| slider :"
1t is my impression that just at this point began
| TO feel a slight vet distinct hunmng III the ears
Was the voice that now heard dealing with George.
| Eliot and abstract Righteousness and the folly "i
forcing hum an DEVELOPMENT and the Indebtedness OF
| Herbert Spencer to Comte--was this the same voice
that | had heard. not 50 vcrs long ago. assure me
| that Blue Room party at Delmoncos was "a co"d
deal peasanter than one of those big balls in the
grand salon. and that Amy Van Horn had decided
positively to announce her cngagel aent next week
| to Tom Eastrver and that the latest ricdish com
| mands from Paris that Ladies would wear heels
| a quarter of an inch higher than evc' b. oref
| Could ! be dreaming it all, or was thS radical
change a clear, tangible factf
| little LATER all the ladies' had % The short
| February day had begun to dI-ru | sat alone
| with Julia Clymer Kingdom III ,ra asant hre-lt
| dra wing room. ] mad asked her certain questions:
she had answered me with her old fresh and sweet
laugh; she had spoken of herself, of her marriage,
| of her husband Of the change that comparatively
brief time had made. II is useless to ad that had
| listened with keen attention. And was listening
| still as she said
! "Oh yes Mr.. Manhattan, my dear Wallace woke
| me up Those gldy. silly days seem as II ] had
| lived them in another star What do always do
| thoroughly. You used to say that OF me. You re
memberT tAh how like the Other julia she was. as
| she nut her head a little sideways and murniuTed
| I" Won remember ?'1 "You always seemed different
from the rest of the men met. That is WY asked
| Won to come and drink tea with me to-day. Well,
| as | did everything ut did thoroughly then So
| when reformed. | reformed thoroughly. I'm not "a
| hit of a bluc-stocking; don't pose particle; dc-
| test all intellectual shams and attitudes. But !
| have an immense cont,mpt for the way American
| women let their brains 60 to waste 'hlhk IL
horrible that brains should he ont of fashion III
American society. / am afraid that think Amcri-
| can society horrible too. knew IL pretty or
our lly. you recolcct. Boston, Washington. Phila-
delphia-I have seen chem all besides New-iorb
| And | shuddcr when recall 'obat s1ic. ! am 81
| much happier now than | was then was always
| secretly roubcd, before could not explain the
| unrest; it was like an inward fever am calm
now havo found the intellectual life. | e"
She suddenly ceased. nand-organ outside had
| p,uscd lust before the window near which we sat
II was playng-and not absolutely ba0ly-one Of
Straus,s waitzes-a waltz that we had often danced
| to- she and |, in past pleasant evenings together
| My friend burst into her sweetest and gaycst
| laugh Our eyes met. We both rose, snnn!;ane
onsly put my arm about her asst, aAd we took
several turns together. keeping time to the street
music outside Still laughing, she presently d!sen-
gagged herself from my clasp and sank into an arm
| chair.
"Wcllr she exclaimed, " is my reformation
| perfect you supposciT
at is more attractive" replied because little
imprrfcct. ! see that you still not wholly
d5,oe lively spark of the original Eve remains
| a told you that did not pose or attitudtnHc,"
she said "You will find quite sincere and
| natural-though, after have met several times
MORE YOU will confess the change IN ne 20 be very
| great"
| took her hand and bent over It with expansive
| gaantry
ono change" murmurcd. could transform you
to ANYTHING Gincfcnt from the most charming
woman OF your time" T. T.
Copyright. 1894. by Edgar Fawcett
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