Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-08-30
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aunt. Do not go out, please"
With gesture of impatience the artist
began in severe tone:
''If you form such habits"-
But he stopped. The poor child had
shown herself very courageous in the
recent difficult circumstances.
He reflected.
Was it not better to try to convince
her, and at one stroke lay the foundations
of future free from storms?
He placed his hat on the table, sat
down, and drew her upon his knees.
"Listen to me carefully, Teresa" said
he.
"You will stay?' she asked, joyfully.
And, sure Of having won her cause
with SO little trouble, she passed her arms
around her husbands neck.
/ :. But the latter gently detached her en-
laced hands. The poor little woman mas
frightened.
He said.
"My girl, if you wish me to love you,
if you desire our house to be happy and
our life peaceable, you must make up
your Lind to allow me the independence
oh! 1t is limited-which an artist
needs"
The little Nine. Monteforte felt her
heart beat cruelty.
"You say: If you wish me to love
your So. husband of mine, you do not
love me, then?'
He tried to smile, but the memory Of
past years paralyzed this amiable at
tempt, and his expression became serious
again.
II love you, and you know it well. l
love you the more, my dear child, be-
cause have found you valiant when it
was necessary to prove your affection
for me-"
"Well," said she, discouraged, "why
do you talk to me like that? If you wish
to make me understand something ex-
plain it tenderly. have told you, hus-
band of mine, that cannot know every
thing, you know. have had no oppor-
tunity to learn anything except what you
have taught me. had never been away
from my family"
He was disturbed, disarmed, on the
point of staying at home without word.
But, in spite of everything, he remained
under the impression of distrust created
by the past.
Monteforte reflected; she awaited anx-
iously. He thought that it was better to
go to the end. Could he not unite ten
derness with firmness?
First he pressed her against his chest
"Yes." said she, "that's the way. Here,
you see, near your heart, shall under
stand without bitterness; l shall accept
gayly whatever you wish"
! Then, in an affectionate and moderate
tone, beneath which could be felt an i'm
placable firmness, he said:
"Know first that love you, and that
other women, however beautiful or de-
sirable they may be, leave me Indifferent.
You must have blind confidence in
your husband; / desire no more suspi-
cions or scenes. Do not believe me capa-
BILE even of thought that could cause
you to grieve. Jealousy, you see, is dis
agreeable and stupid. Live in security;
in the first place, calmness beauties.
Then learn to understand the needs of
artists. Other men spend the day out
side in their business. We work at home
in the daytime; we must talk of the
ideas that are dear to us, and for that
we have only the evening. Work, read,
sing; but do not trouble me and do not
trouble yourself with puerile imagina-
tions. From the child that you area
devoted, sincere and good child-grow
into woman without losing the grace
of your simplicity. If you do not, shall
love you just the same, because of your
good little heart; but shall suffer, and
shall esteem you less. Now, believe me,
a woman is always the gamer by her
husbands esteem. Now, as each of us
should do something for the other, this
evening shall not go out"
Teresa listened with serious attention,
COMPRISING her thin pale lips, and look
ing at him steadily.
On hearing her husbands last words,
the young woman kissed him, rose, took
Monteforte's hat, and said resolutely:
"Go, husband of mine; begin this even
ing. 1t was only necessary to explain"
Then lovingly, but none the less seri-
ously, she continued:
my Orlando, you shall see of what
am capable"
He looked at her in surprise at the
mature, pensive something with which
he was struck. AS she insisted, he went
out; but with regret at leaving her, a
feeling unknown to him before.
When he was in the street, Teresa,
resting on the balcony, followed him
with her eyes as long as she could see
him, and with her hand upon her heart
she said: