The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-09-09
DECEPTLONS.
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also Co,ne!li. h that hasEsuch lugubri-
ous gallal.tIy. Hs has promised TO kill
himself for my safe within mouth:
we shall see. Ali! Abr
And sitting opposite to him, in rustic
of satin and je5, makiag Shine like two
stars the brliiants, large as hazelnuts
which adorned her small ears, she con-
tinued to laugh, with her elastic laugh
ter, full of mischief and full of tender
ness.
All, indeed. old Ma,Shis could call
himself fortunate mani
Fortunate? Yes, he ought to have
considered himself SO. When he set
himself to reason about it, to describe
mentally his conjugal situation, he had
to conclude that he world have done
wrong to complain of his destiny. And
yet
What Of the terribly unexpected had
he now discovered in the depths Of the
pure sapphire of Genma's eyes? Was
there arisen in his soul the doubt that
that faithfulness against every trial,
that coldnass toward her admirers, was
nothing but the wish to preserve intact
a position acquired with difficulty, and
that precisely to that position was dl-
rected all the tenderness shown toward
himself! | do not know, but the vivid
and impetuous joy of the wedding was
no longer in him, although his love re-
mained the same and u painful doubt
thrilled in his voice when he replied to
the playful confidence of Gemma, for
cling himself to laugh, too.
Take care, now, take care-the ven
geance of the tyrant hangsover you"-
All, the poor tyrant, how he loved her!
How she had known how to bind him
with her little hands, white and per-
fumed AS two lilies! For nothing in the
world would he have discovered the
truth, changed into certainty his To-
menting doubt; SO she had d-only to ask in
order to obtain; for now for him that
love of which he doubted had become his
life. and he felt painful structure at his
heart at the mere thought that day
might come when he wonli be obliged
to refuse her something. leV taat day
came. Suddenly, by one 4 ,-o,> nyH
terious complications Of hlt
bank, which until then hau AsJhe froin
triumph to triumph, underwent u VIC
lent shock. Not noisy downfall, one
of those open, public ruius which pro
duce great failures, but one OF those
| deep, intimate, secret crises that must he
borne without word, Il lament. under
penalty Of death; that can be overcome
only by force of small privations, little
hidden savings; it is then that strict
economy in the family becomes neces-
sary The luxury Of Gemma III those
moments became absolutely ruinous for
her husband: he ought to have warned
her, sought to check her: he dared not,
and continued to content her, but very
soon came the time when he could do Sc
no more.
1t was on the occasion of great ball
to which she was to go; she had ordered
from Paris marvellous gown that be
came her to perfection; still she was moi
satisfied. Some days before, III the show
case of the most fashionable jeweler OF
the city. diaderi had set i'll revolution
all the feminine imaginations; supert
Jewel, of antique style, set i'll silver gilt
of a starry pallor, where the briliiants
seemed drops of flame. Gemma wished
to have it, and indeed it would be diff
cult TO find Il face adapted to the almost
religious richness of that jewel, more
than her snowy profile of an angel IL
ecstacy.
Ten thousand francs was the price o
that jewel, and Marchis did not have
them. Mute, immovable, his heart op
pressed, he listened to Gemmas word
as she described it to him. How coult
he tell her how could he even tell he
that he had not the 10000 francs! 1t wa
terrible To another woman who shoul'
have had that caprice one might hav
proposed to have her own diamonds re
set after that model, or perhaps even +
have an imitation diadem made. N
one would have suspected it. But h
felt that the danger lay in confessing hi
powellcssness. Yet it must be done
And he made an effort at courage.
GemIna had seated herself beside him
throwing back and bending a little t
one side her blonde bead with that IRE
sistible feminine movement which dis
plays the white throat, the pure lin
descending from the slender neck to til
full bloomed bust down to the roun
and flexible waist.
II would like to have it; it seems
me that | should look weil. Don't yo
think SO? | have great wish to
beautiful. If you knew Why
She laughed now deliciously, with tn
air of her roguish hours. He was silel
for a moment: then fixing vague loc
upon the delicate designs of the orient!
carpet. paling as if from an inwai
wound, he murmured:
"The fact is that do not know-I {
not really know whether
shall be able to buy it for you
"Whv:'
! She had quickly raised her head, mu'
surprised, uneasy, looking at him. SUE
: a thing had Hever happened to her.
: Marchis wiped his forehead and r
sumed his discourse.
1.-The fact is--you see, in bank Ii
ours there @.e moments that-certa
moments IL \, 'uh one cannot-in whi
it is impossible
What as -1"ossible for him, in th
moment, W. finish the phrase.
stopped and lifted his eyes timidly
her. desolaely. as if to beg her to he
: him. She was rery pale, with sudd
hardness N a'l her features, in her col
messed T., A. IA her knit brows, in