The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-09

you are males wandering in quest. You
are always IN rut!
1.-THE irresistible for you is the possible.
Yes. in truth, you are wretches. infamous
onesl
"And If we feign almost always to ignore
it; il, through voluntary infatuation, We
persuade ourselves that we do indeed
ignore it, tbs because, instinctively re-
solved to constancy, we do not wish TO
find, in avowing your inhdelity, pretext
for retaliation
But in our souls depths we know what
you are-and | am going to tell you.
who Is that one among you, VINO. seeing
beautiful girl, do not coyet her, be-
cause he has an exquisite mistress or an
adorable wife?
where is that man who considers the
love he has as an obstacle to the pleasure
which would be possible for him to hayeY
"ln the evening, in box at the theater,
when you think our eyes are directed on
the stage, it is you that we observe.
"And not one of the desires lighted in
your eyes by some ballet girl IN tights
escapes our despairing jealousy.
Yes, there, while our arm touches your
arm, while we are so near you that with
but a slight turn of the head we could kiss
each others lips behind our raised fan,
you, breathing little hard, think only of
the legs and the throat of that girl, and
you would give anything if we were not
there, to 60 back of the scenes, between
the acts, to see her close to, to say to her:
Come out, and take supper with mep
Where would be the harm You would
come home a little late, that's all, with
rice powder on your coat sleeves and an
odor of patchouli in your beard, and if
you should find US awake then, sitting up
in bed, our eyes wide open trying to read a
crumpled book, yon would set everything
all right by saying TRANQUILITY: What
Not gone TO sleep yet, my darling?
But you do not confine yourself to these
lusts, however cruel they are TO us. You
must have, after all the vile chimeras, all
the vile accomplishments.
"We who dream also perhaps, we know
how to resist almost always our dreams,
through respect or love of honest realities !;
you, never!
What to you matters our tenderness,
our waiting2
They are always good enough for US,
your lips, after others kisses!
Even the day after the day in which
should have, for the first time yielded to a
man who would love me above all, would
not leave him alone in nv boudoir with my
friend, for, if she were willing-if, even not
willing, she resisted badly he would over
come her, yes, there In my room, on the
same long chair
All! since 1t is necessary to say all, will
speak out, and thou dar'st not swear that
/ am wrong!
"a few days before his marriage with a
most chaste and charming young girl, the
man she is engaged to meets one of his
former mistresses, demi-monde, who has
lost her beauty, grown aged, whom he has
not seen for year, whom he has never
loved. He can avoid her, or, bowling coldly,
hurry on.
mo, He stops; they talk; they laugh.
There is hundred to one to wager that if
that woman has nothing better to do, they
will go and dine together in some restaur-
ant, as formerly, to have a good time
What good time prayP They will par
ody In advance on some filthy bed the di-
vine mysteries of the nuptiaI couch! Oh,
you are monstrous monsters; yes, mon
sters, l say, and imbecies, too
You think We do not know where You go
evenings, when profiting by slight mis-
understanding you, taking your hat and
kissing US on the forehead coldly, say in a
dignified manner: Let US drop that, dear.
1t is late-tomorrow. / am going home
now
Home! Where, pray? 1t is to her
house that you go. To her house, re-
peat, if you have had time during the day
to premeditate an infdelity, to arrange an
designation. Or if not to their houses
that is to say, to the houses of girls; to the
houses of such as you pick up on the
streets, or to those houses where you
know such women are to be found!
as not that horrible, abject, beneath all
scorn?
Zone word would have sufficed to have
made us smiling and happy; you have not
Wished to utter it. knowing we'll that il
would have sufficed. You had other plans,
and you left us. And time after time
some one following you-0h! we would
IN dan /. hflf Er1A l,
1t .-some one following you would see you
walking quickly along, keeping close to
the walls, your coat collar turned up, enter
one of those narrow, darkened streets
where through doors always open the gas
throws bands of light on the mud
but if, the day after this vilIany you
learn that she by whom you are loved,
after long resistance, or in the bewilder-
ment OF surprise, has given herself.
gullty-worthy of pity also-to another
man, you rise up an implacable Judge, kill
her If she is your wife, certain of doing so
with impunity, or limit yourself through
fear of the scatiold to insult and beat her.
if she is only your mistress.
Thus you arrogate TO yourselves the
right of being judges, you the culprits
without excuse, and without repentance.
You who coldly and voluntarily give all
the examples of evil and never one of re-
morse
I'm truth, it is absurd. as well as horrible
and to punish US for one momentaneous
iauit, one that without doubt would not
be committed again, you do not even wait
TO do away with the evidences that wonld
| make you forget your own personal base.
Mesa forgetfulness which. however
comes to you so quickly.
Hold just little while age. on the hand
with which you struck me in the face
there was an infamous odor of musk
Welll Wash your hands, tell you, before
you strike usl''
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