The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-02-03

Numbered so, and what bad brought this
about Il was sounexpccted, 10 was incred'
/ ible
/ "Do-do believe me'' DO exclaimed, bend
/ ing over her. Il never meant anything the
/ least disrespectful to YOU: / never dreamed
+ pit. You asked me 30 give you my true
opinion, and my criticism applied much
inOro 10 The play than u yourself. THINK
nothing Of It, If you yourself are persuaded
Yon must know much better than / can
( what viii suit YOU And rs for Wallace
/ Wallace Will b. proud u let you DO what you
viii with ms play
Il seemed TO him that be would have said
/ ANYTHING in tho world 70 soothe her IL was
| 50 piteous, 50 intocrablo 10 him % watch
/ that quivering lip.
"Ah, yes" sho said looking up, dreary
+ smile fitting over her face, Il know you
+ didn't mean % wound nc, but t. was there,
| YOUR feeling, / saw 10 at once might
( have seen it, if ! hadn't been a fool, 80 Mr.
/ Wallace's manner / did SEQ it. us only
( what every one whose opinion is worth hay
/ ing is beginning 10 say. Ny acting has been
/ q nightmare 10 me lately | believe 1t has
/ been q great, great mistase'
/ Kendall never felt q Eeencr hatred Of the
+ conventionalities wlnch rule the relations be-
| tween men and women. Could be only have
/ simply expressed his own feeling, be would
have kuolt beside her on the path, have taken
the trembling hands in his own, and COM
fortcd her as a woman wOch have done But
as IL was, be could only stand stu and
awkward before her, and yet - seemed TO
/ him as il the whole world had resolved itself
into his own individuality and hers, and as if
Toe gas river party and the bright, friendly
relations OF au hour before wcro separated
/ from the present by on impossible gulf.
| And worst Of all, there seemed 10 bo q
strange pcrvers'. " IN his speech foto VIII OBJ
drove nm into Uellayng every bere ana
t there his own real standpoint whether he
would or 800.
"You must not say such things, be said,
as calmly as be could. You have charmed
the English public as no one else has ever
( charmed &c. Is that not a great thing o.
/ have done' And II T. who am very fastid-
ious and very captions and oyer-critical IN q
hundred ways-if am inclined 20 think that
! part is rather more than yOu, with your
l short dramatic experience, can compass quito
| successfully, why. what does 10 natter J
{ may toe qaite wrong. Don't take any notice
uf my opinions, forget Dc, and let me help
you, If ] can, by talking over tie play"
She shook Der head with .fter little
/ smile. NO, no; ! shall never forget IL.
/ Your attitude only brought home 70 me, al
most more strongly than could bear, what
have suspected a long, long tlme-the con
/ tempt which people like YOU and Mr. Wal
! lace feel for me-"
"Contenptm cried Kendall, beside himself
and feeling as il all the criticisms he had
I allowed himself 20 make OF her We're recOil-
ing in one avenging mass upon bis head Il
nevec felt anything but the warmest ADM
! ration for your courage, your work, your
womanly goodness and sweetness"
| "Yes,n she said, rising and holding out her
hand half unconsciously for her cloak, which
She put round her as though the wood had
suddenly grown cold, admiration for me as
a woman, contempt for mo as an artist.
I There's the whole bare truth Does It hold
my future in 10, / wonieri Is there nothing
in me but this beauty that people talk Of,
and wh ch sometimes hate"
She swept her hair back from her forehead
4 With Il fierce dramatic gesture. 1t was rs
\ though the SELF in her was rising up and as
1 serting itself against the judgment which had
! been passed upon 1t. as il some hidden force,
Z hardly suspected even by herself, were beat
| Ing against rs bars. Kendall watched her in
! helpless silence Tell ne, She said. fixing
l her deep hazel eyes upon him, 'you owe it to
| me-yOu have given me 50 much pain. No.
no, you did not mean 81. But tell me, and
! tell me from the bottom Of your heart-that
/ 80 4 sfaH. ia
! is it I wautf What is il that seems 70 be
/ threatening me with failure as an artist ]
work all day long, my work IS never out Of
J my head 10 seems TO pursue mo all night
But tho more / struggle With 10 the less sue
cessful l seem even % myself"
Her look was haunting; there was despair
! and there was hope In il. ltimpled that she
! had sot HIM up IN her impulsive way as q sort
| of an oracle who alone could help her out Of
her difficulty. In presence Of that look his
! own conyentionality feI away from him, and
ho spoke the PLAIN, direct truth 70 her.
! "What YOU want, he said slowly, as il the
words weIo forced from him, is knOwledgel
| London has taught you much, and that is
why YOU are dissatisfied with your work-it
/ IS the beginning of all real success But you
want positive kuowledce-tho knowledge
you could get from books and the knowl-
/ edge other people could teach you. You
want true sense of what has been dOu0 and
what can be done with Your art, and YOU
1 want an insight into the world OF ideas lying
round it and about 10 You are very young,
and you have bad 90 train yourself But
every human art nowadays is 50 complicated
| that none Of us can &c, on without using the
| great stores Of experience others have laid
up for us"
il was all ont now. He had spoken his
/ nmost mind They had stopped again, and
she was loosiug 40 him intently; it struck
him that be could not possibly havo said
/ what he had been saying unless he had been
| led on by an instructive dependence upon O.
Great magnanimlty Of nature in her And
/ then the next moment tue strange Opposites
the matter held In 10 flashed across him. He
/ saw tae crowded theatre. tire white figure on
I the stage his ear seemed 10 be full OF the
/ clamor OF praise with which London had
! been overwhelming It's iayOrite. II YVES to
4 this spoiled child Of fortune that he had been
| playing the schO0lmSter-he one captious
man of letters, against the world
But she had not a thought OF the kind. or
/ exactly the contrary light To her Kendal's
words, instead Of being those Of a single
critic, We're the voice and the embodiment Of
a hundred couvergiug Impressions and sensa-
tious, and she feit relief in having analysed
10 the full the vague trouble which had been
settling upon her by this unraveling Of her
own feelings and his.
81 am very grateful to YOU she said
steadily, very. It Is strange but almost
when / first saw YOU | iclt that there was
something luminous IN yea d me Ny dream
IA which have been living has never heen
50 perfect since, and now think II has gone.
Don't look 50 grleyed, " she cried, inexpfess-
IDLY touched by his face IL am glad you
told me ali You thought IL will be a help to
me. And as for poor Elvira," she added,
trying TO smile, for all her extreme paleness,
tell MI. Wallace / give her up. / am not
yexed. ! am not angry Don't you think
now We had better 60 back to Mrs. Stuart
should like rest with her before We all
meet again
She moved forward as she spoke, and il
seemed to Kendall that Der step was unsteady
aud that she was deadly white lie planted