Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-03

hand fer one Of hers. Did Eustace make
himself 6issgreeabis TO You?
" 1t was more, 1 think, she answered,
as if ref ctirg, the standard BE always
seemed 10 carry about with him than any
thing connected with my own work. At
least, Of course, l mean before that Nune-
ham day. Al that Nuneham day, IL cut
deep
''She turned away from me and leaned
over the size Of the boat, so that l could
not see her face.
You forced it out Of Eustace, you
know, 1 said, trying to laugh at her, 'you
u1compromising young person. Or course,
be battered himself that you forgot all
about his preaching the nom Mt you got
home Men always make them elves be-
lieve what they want 20 believe.
"a" Why should we want u believe so ?
She repied quickly. 4 had half forester
IT, had forced it from him, and yet l felt
il ike q blow II cost me a slteples
night. and some well, some very bitter
te,rs. Not that the tears were new eX-
perieucs. How often, alter all the rolss
az The theatre, nave / gOae home and
crisd myself to sleep over the impossible
~ OF doing what ! wanted to DO, Of NOV
inc those hundreds Of people, of making
them feel and of putting my own feeling
into shape But that right, and with
nv sen e Of illness Just then
/ saw myself-it seemed to be
quite in the near future-grow-
ing old and ugly a forgotten failure,
without any of those memories which con
sole people who have been great when
they must give up. / felt myself strus-
Cling against such a weight Of Ignorance,
of bad habits, of unfayOrable surround
ings How was I ever to get free and to
reverse that judgment of Mr.. Kendsls?
NV very success stood in my way. How
was Miss Bretherton' to put herself to
school?'
"'But now, said to her warmly, you
have got free; or, rather, you a'e on the
way TO freedom.
"She thought little without speaking
her chin resting on her band, her elbow
ON her knee. We were passing the great
red brown mass of the American convent
She seemed TO be drinking in the dazzling
barmopies OF blue and warm brown and
nearly light. When she did speak again
Il was very slowly, as though she was try
ing to give words to 4 number Of complex
impressions.
Eyes she said; it seems 10 me that l
am different; bat I can't tell exactly how
or why. L see sill sorts of new possibilities,
new meanings everywhere; that Is one halt
of H. But the other, and the greater, half
is-how to make all these new feelings and
anv new knowledge which may come to
me tell on my art And then she changed
altogether with one of those delightful
s,vift transformations Of hers, and her face
rippled with laughter. AT present the
chief result of the difference, whatever 1t
NAV be. seems to make me most unman-
oge,ble at home. I am forever disagree
ing with my people, saying can't do this
and won't do that. am getting to en-
ov having my own way in the most sbOm-
inable manner And then she caught my
hand. that was holding hers, between both
her own, and said half laughing and half
in earnest: -.
"Did you ever realizs that don't
know any single language beside my own,
NOT even French? That l can't read any
French book or any French play?'
d" We'll, I said, half laughing, too, ii
is very astonishing. And you know 1t
can't 20 on if you are to do what think
Won will do. French you positively must
learn. and learn quickly. don't mean to
sav that we haven't good plays and ira
dition of cur own but for the moment
France is the center of your art, and you
cannot remain at distance from it! The
French have organized their knowledge; ii