Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-07-27


here.
The rest of the family are going to the
Porters tonight, but I shall stay at home and
console myself with Beethoven, Sidney Lanier
and you, if youn come, for have something
to show you. a woman's head, painted from
photograph, which finished only yester-
day IL isn't bad.
AhectionateIy, Cara
THE CLUB, Feb. z, SO.
"Dear Cara-Yours just received 1t seems
almost unnecessary to tell you how glad /
shall be to come DevotedIv, JACK"
1t isn't says Cara a few hours
later, as she pushed the ottoman to
an easier distance, and turns a beau
tiful, fire-hushed face toward Jack.
cit isn't that this winter has been
much worse than the other two, but
I've been thinking, and as its luxu-
~ 1 don't often allow myself, l have
mental dyspepsia as a result.
Mental dyspepsia" says Jack
scOrnfully; sit S the result of setting
out all the square dances with VIII
Oughby In that draughty cOnserva-
tory of the MarstOns.
Il refuse to understand, SAYS
Cara, smiling.
''YOu can't! Your intellect, - won't
allow you.
Speaking of intellect vicious
~, somehow makes me think of
your friend, Miss MarstOn. How is
she?''
Il don't know why itshould. She's
vel"
DO you intend to please your IA
ther and marry hero"
Il don't know, Cara. If the worst,
comes to the worst, 1 suppose 1 shall
have to-"
81 should think that would be an
exact statement Of the case-the
worst coming to the worst. -
Don't be any more severe than
yOu-can help" says Jack, laughing
'1Ou don't know what it is to be
poor"
81 almost wish I did" Cara an
swers; 81 might then have amounted
to something as an artist
"HOu need hardly wish that, for.
as it is, you are the best amateur. .
That's it, Cara breaks in i'm
patiently. Amateur, amateur. al
ii
list. Of late have had thoughts OF
giving my money to found home
for other Weakminded women, and
living in Paris on ten sous a day and
the divine affiatus; only as Haw-
thOrne says: The great obstacle to
being heroic is the doubt whether one
may not be going to prove ones sell
q fool.
Cone doesn't like to be too precipi.
tate after a remark of that kind, q
says Jack, meditatiVely, after a little
pause, during which Cara has risen
and seated herself at the piano,
where she is lazily striking minor
chords.
is that what has kept you from
being too precipitate? Jack, what
makes you so laZy?"
Lack of incentive. Don't scOrn. -
Il wish 1 could make YOU feel your
possibilities for yourself as [ feel them
for YOU
Il asked you to try once. and YOU
refused Jack laughs when he saws
1t, but try as he will his voice fa1ters
when ne speaks.
Cara bushes. and then saws: ST
we hadn't Outlived a great deal OF
the nonsense of our lives. we could
not be the thoroughly good friends
we are now. Come and let me intro
duce you to q woman who, I think.
IS worth mans love. She's over in
the library. 1 remember YOUR dislike
to climbing, and had her brought
down"
Jack offers her his arm, and to.
| gether they walk the whole length Of
the draWing-rOOm, across the hall ia
the library, the greater part of which
is IN shadow, the one bright light oil.
| rectly over the picture.
Only a picture of a WOman's head
| and the cuTvetO theshOulders; ruddy
chestnut hair that curls mistily
around a face in which sweetness and
AFmness are strangely intefmingled
great lrised gray eyes, eyes with all
the poetry and passion Of CabaneI'f
| Venus; a clear, almost deIicately
/ cOIOrless skin, save from a warmth
IN mouth and cheek; and yet, with
all the yielding beauty Of woman
hood, there is an intellectual vigOI
and strength in the face which one
| seldom sees save in the faces of meE
who have suffered and been strong
cit is by far the best thing yoU
have ever done says Jack, after 6
few moments of admiring silence
''May / see the Photographic
''It's behind the Mona Lisa, not g
very good one. 1t must have beer
done by some amateur photograph
Ter, judging from the finish. But
Cara, how much the eyes here ar,
/ TX your OWnl'
''They tell me so. Ali Jack, I re
greet to see that you are regarding
her more as q woman than as an ar
tistic production.
''I'm afraid I am. Do you know
her well? Why have I never seeI
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