The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29

in the near future were not-but hate ak
ing about that kind of thing. Why do you
force me to itl Nobody could know that my
uncle, who was SO anxious that l should
marry you, would marry himself at his age
and have son and heir. 1t was not nv
fault, Honoris. Perhaps you would not
have married me if you could have foreseen
it
Very probably not, p she answered calmly,
"and it is not my fault that l have not yet
learned to live with peace of mind and COM
fort on seven hundred a year. 1t was hard
enough to exist on two thousand till your
uncle died, and nown-
"Well, and now, Honoria if you will only
have patience and put up with things for
little, you shall be rich enough; will make
money for you, as much money as you want
/ have many friends. l have not done SO
badly at the bar this year"
1.-TWO hundred pounds nineteen shilIings
and seven pence, minus ninety-seven pounds
rent of chambers and clerk, . said Lady Ho-
noria, with disparaging accent on the seven
pence
AZ shall double it next year, and double
that again the next, and so on. 1 work from
morning till night to get on, that you may
have-what you live for" he said, bitterly
"Ah, shall be sixty before that happy day
comes, and want nothing but scandal and
bath chair. 1 know the bar and its moan
ing" she added with acid wit. ''Y GU dream,
you imagine what you would like to come
true, but you are deceiving me and yourself
1t will be like the story of Sir Robert Bing-
hams property once again. We shall be
beggars all our days. I tell you, Godfrey,
that you had no right to marry me-"
Then at length he lost his temper This
was not the first of these scenes-they had
grown frequent of late, and this bitter water
was constantly dropping.
''Rightln he said "And may l ask what
right you had to marry me when you don't
even pretend you ever cared one straw for
me, but just accepted me as you would have
accepted any other man who was q tolerably
good match? 1 grant that first thought of
proposing to you because my uncle wished it,
but if did not love you l meant to be good
husband TO you, and would have loved you
if you would let me. But you are cold and
selfish; You looked upon q husband merely as
a stepping stone to luxury; you have never
loved anybody except yourself Ii had died
last night l believe that you would have
cared more about having to go into mourn
ing than for the fact of my disappearance
from your life You showed no more feeling
for me when you came in than you would
caye II 1 had been q stranger-not so msIch
as some women would have for stranger.
wonder sometimes if You have any feeling
left in you at all. l should think that you
treat me as you do because you do not care
for me and do care for some other person did
l not know you to be utterly incapable of
caring for anybody. Do you want to make
me hate your
Godfrey low concentrated voice and earn
est manner told his wife, who was watching
him with something like smile upon her
clear cut lips, how deeply he was moved. He
had lost his self control, and exposed his heart
to her-a thing he rarely did, and that in it
self was q triumph which she did not wish to
pursue at tie moment. Godfrey was not a
man TO push too far.
''If you have quite finished, Godfrey, there
is something 1 should like to say"-
l ''Oh, curse it all!''
: ''Yes?' she said calmly and interrogativelv,
: and made pause, but as he did not specially
apply his remark to anybody or anything,
l she continued: IF these flowers of rhetoric
5 are over, what have to say is this: that |
1 don't intend to stay in this horrid place any
Garsington. They asked us both, you may
/ remember, but for reasons best known tc
: yourself you would not go.n
''You know my reasons very well, Homo
ria"
/ Il beg your pardon. l have not the slight
a est idea what they were," said Lady Honoria
: with conviction. May 1 hear thengn
i ''Well, if you wish to know, will not &c
10 Of 1agt,
e club as Garsington left it, and who, had il
a not been for my efforts, would have left i
o in an even more unpleasant and conspicuous
fashion. And his wife is worse than he Isl
a Il think you are mistaken, u she said coldly
e and with the air of a person who shuts thu
r door OF room into which she does not wisl
+ to look. tAnd, anyway, it all happened
years ago and has blown over. But l dom
y see the necessity of discussing the subjec
d further. l suppose that we shall meet a
S dinner tonight. l shall take the early trail
e tomorrow"
5 do what suits you. Perhaps you woul,
:, prefer not returning at all"
: Thank you, nc. l will not lay mysel
n open to imputations. l shall return to yo,
in London, and will make the best of ba
d business. Thank heaven, i have learned hoy
g to bear my misfortunes, and with this Par
t. THAN shot she left the room.
, For minute or two her husband felt a
: though he almost hated her. Then he thrus
II his face into the pillow and groared.~
% ''She is right" he said 20 himself; 'w
k must make the best nl bad business. But
d somehow. l seem to have made mess of IN
D life. And yet l loved her onse,-for mont
ii or two.n
lie This was not an agreeable scene, and
n may be said that Lady Honoria was vulga
person. But not even the advantage of hay
n ing been brought up ''on the knees of ma
chionesses' is specific against vulgarity,
le a lady happens, unfortunately, to set he
r, heart, what there is of it, meanly on mea
d things.
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