San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-13

| anu aIUer You were marrleu ulu ne
get tired of you? Was that it?''
Il suppose So" But the answer came
very family. II suppose he got tired
OF me,--but never understood him, or
felt sure whether he would have cared
for anybody else more than he cared for
me. had been pretty when he saw
me first: | know it was that at the be-
ginning that made him think of me-"
"Well-and afterward?" he said i'm
patiently.
"He used to seem fond of me at mo-
ments afterward,- hardly think
it was in his nature to care for anything
long. He was not unkind to mel have
told you that BEFORE" she said quickly.
'fHe was wrapt up in himself he
never treated me ill-he never saw that
was not happy"
He must have had singularly dim
| visionl"
Mr.. Dunstan made this comment
rather beneath his breath; and then
aloud
| What was he doing all day that he
never saw it?" he said. "What were his
peculiar avOcations? Had he profess
sion? What was hep"
mo, he had no profession" she said.
HE was fond Of some things that he
used to do TOTO amuse himself" (she
said this rather hurriedly and nervous
| ly)-"but they were not work. He had
never had to work. l think it would
have been better for him if he had"
Because it would have taken him off
your handsp"
"Oh mol" she said quickly. 81 did not
mean that,-for he was never very
much with meat least not when he
was well. He knew great many peo-
ple."
And he preferred their society to
yours, did hep
"Yes-it amused him to be with
them"
And these people-were they your
friends as well as his?"
NO" she said coldly, after mo-
ment's silence.
None of themp"
'Very few of them"
"And that made him angry, sup
poser"
Mott didn't make him angry. /
don't know that he ever noticed it."
| HE seems to have had a remarkable
power of passing through life without
noticing things"
"Yes--he was self-absorbed. He did
not take much heed of things that did
not touch himself. But, Mr.. Dunstan,
/ am not blaming him." she said sud-
denly and earnestly. men have made
women infinitely more unhappy than
he made me. never loved him enough
to give him the power of making me
suffer much. could not love him-that
was at once my greatest pain, and my
greatest safeguard against the pain he
might have given me-"
"Did you love any one else, thenp
Was that why you couldn't love him?"
he said to her all at once, sharply and
almost harshly.
The color came to her face; she did
not look at him as she answered-"No,"
half aloud.
"Oh no, it was not that" she. said af-
ter two or three moments silence, but
/ still with her eyes upon the ground. Il
never cared for any one else-thank
God! He might have made me love him
once-if he had been different. BIT you
see-you see," she said pathetic.llly, for
the first time lifting up her head and
looking into his FACET had no right
to blame him, or anybody, for the first
fault of all was mine, in having ever
married him."
1T was not your fault that you mar
ried him: that was the fault of those
who made you do it," he answered
quickly. AT less than eighteen you
were nothing but child
II was old enough to have resisted
persuasion. if had not been vain and
worldly" she said.
"Were vanity and worldliness pair
of qualities that belonged to you in
your girlhood?" he asked her. II should
not have suspected It'll Where have they
| gone to now?n And then when she did
not answer him he looked at her with
laugh. do you want to claim posses
sion of them still?" he said.
why do you laugh at me for telling
you the truth?" she answered a little
sadly. "Most certainly l scdS vain and
worldly once; if / am neither now it is
no merit of mine"
swell, you shall not be laughed at"
he replied. II was only unprepared for
the kind of faults you seem to have had
that was ALL" And then he began to
do something very like chuckling to
himself. "Vain and worldly" he NUT
tered. II should as soon have guessed
that she had been blind and lame!"
There was a clock upon the mantel-
piece that struck the quarters, and
minute after this it struck the third
quarter after nine.
Look how late it is getting!" she
said abruptly then. "DO you not want
me to do some more writing for your"
mo, let the writing wait; you can
finish it tomorrow" he said.
''Then-shall we come to the draw
ing-room?" she suggested.
"No-why should WEI" he demanded
coolly. Are you not comfortable here?"
81 did not mean that, ;" she said.
Then why do you want to make any
chanpep We are very well like this