The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-04-12
THE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS. APRIL IL 1881.

life. She knew few rules of gyntax,
while be was daily studying the faults
Of his tongue. Hefelt his superiority,
but argued that it would be cruel to
show her that he did.
He tried not to see SO much of her, and
/ IL puzzled him that this irritated him.
the more so that she made no effort to
see him.
Nne day he met her when he had not
seen her for weeks, and was resolving to
look her up. There was a young, horid-
ly dressed man with her.
She was cool and quiet, and how pref
ty she looked to the eyes that had missed
her these weeksl The lawyers clerk
knew that he had made her realize their
relative positions. She introduced the
stranger, calling him with an accent,
"Mister Dunlap" He who was to be a
judge experienced another pang asld con-
siderable contempt for Mr.. Dunlap. He
was angry with her too, and after few
words left the couple, conscious that the
gaHdily attired fellow laughed at the
shabby professional struggler. After a
few DAYS of vague restlessness he told
himself in a ct of inspiration that it was
his duty to 70 to Saione and expostu-
late with her for associating with people
who were not good enough for her.
You mean Dunlap, she said quietly.
s'Why amt be good enough for mes'
He Is vulgar, loud in Dress" an
swered the poor lawyers clerk, in a
mean coat and leaky boots, "and he has
no education.
Neither have L" she retorted. $50
that don't make any inferiority.7
II believe you'll marry him. ? he burst
out
HE has asked me to, said she.
ssAnd You will. marry hi1n?'
s.Do you want to marry rpe?'
They looked into each other'seyes, and
he, whipping himself into fury, tried
to make himself believe that she had
treated him badly, while his conscience
told him that the bad treatment had all
been ON his side, and that his neglect
and III usage had driven her to assert
herself in the only way she knew of.
s.Marry him for all care he shout
ed and left her.
He had never seen her from that day
to this He did not know If she had
married; he only knew that he never
came across her
At first this silence irritated him, but
he was not the one to give in. Let her
come to him, but he would not go to
her to see blame in her eyes, and by
seeking her make that blame righteous.
Then he went deeper into his work
grew cumulative of the men around him.
He refused to think Of Salome, and
dreamed of her at night.
When he was thirty and over, with
small clientele, he met the lady he mar
ried two years later. Her social position
was irreproachable; she was companion
able, sympathetic, even tempered and
wealthy. His married life had been
phenomenally calm, and the daughter
that had been born was his idol No
wife could have been better and t1uer
than his had been; no woman could
have more carefully brought out of
man the good that was in him. There
was not moment when he might re-
greet any step he had taken since his
marriage.
Before that? Well, scarcely regret
He had done his share of foolishness;
but then 1.-The man who has never been
fool be sure viii never be wise mar"
Still, association is much, and when a
man is so years of age he may be said
to have reached his perihelion, and will
look behind him at the path up which
he has come. Men of so having made
a success Of life, earned the acclaim of
the world, nicely provided with the
goods of the gods, not subsequently in
GLIDING lovely That's" often think of
the lowly home of their childhood,
which has been anything but refresh
ing memory while ambition beckoned
from the heights; frowsy boys will be
affectionately remembered, extravagant
"reminiscences will begin, monuments in
native towns will be thought Of, and a
tender desire to lie at last in the humble
GOODNESS of the green old churchyard
beside the perhaps neglected mother
and father.
The Judge was past so years OF age.
There was a life his wife knew little Of;
a life his wife and child would smile at
if they knew of it. His fingers were