The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-29

board and flung it aside. The mingled
odours of the fruit and flowers OFFENDED
my senses.
81 care nothing for these trifles,"
said, addressing Vincenzo almost impa.
tiently. Take them to the little daughtc,
| Of the hotel-keeper; she is . child, she
will atQIeciate them. Take them away
at once" - <--2aa.-.s[. - ...-.-
Obediently, Vincenzo lifted the basket
and bore 1t out of the room. l was re.
lieved when its fragrance and colour
had vanished, /, to receive as 4 gilt tba
product of my own garden. Ha
Yexea, bali sore at heart, threw In {.
self into all easy chair; anon | laughed
aloud! So! Madame commences III
game early, thought. Already payiHz
these marked attentions 10 a man h
knows nothing of beyond that he is r.
ported to be fabulously wealthy. Gold,
gold for everl What will it not do! J.
will bring the proud to their knees. il
will force the obstinate to seryile com
pliance, it will conQtltf aversion and pre-
juaice. The world is a slave to its yell
low glitter, and the love of woman, that
perishable article of commerce, is ever at
its command. Would you obtain kiss
from pair of ripe red lips that seem the
very abode of honeyed sweetness? Pay
for it then with a lustrous diamond: the
larger the gem the longer the kiss! The
more diamonds you give the more car
esses you will get. The jeunesse doree,
who ruin themselves and their ancestral
homes for the sake of the new
est and prettiest female puppet
on the stage, know this well
enough. l smiled bitterly as /
thought of the languid witching look my
wife had given me when she said, "You
do not seem to be old knew the mean
ing of her eyes; had not studied their
liquid lights and shadows so long for
nothing. My road to revenge was
straight and perfectly line-almost too
smooth. l could have wished for some
difficulty, some obstruction; but there
was none-absolutely none. The traitors
had walked deliberately into the trap set
for them. Over and over again asked
myself quietly and in cold bTood,-was
there any reason why / should have pity
on them? Had they shown one redeem
ing point in their characters? Was there
any nObleness, any honesty, any real
sterling good quality in either of them to
justly my consideration? And al
ways the answer came, mol Hollow
to the hearts core, hypocrites both, liars
both,-even the guilty passion they
cherished for one another had no real
earnestness in it save the pursuit of
present pleasure; for she, Nina, in that
fatal interview in the avenue where |
had been tortured listener, had limited
at the possibility of firing of her lover,
and he had frankly declared to me that
very day that it was absurd to suppose
man could be true to one woman all
his life. In brief, they deserved their
approaching fate. Such men as Guido
and such women as my wife are, know,
common enough in all classes of society,
but they are not the less pernicious ami
mails, meriting determination as much,
if not more, than the less harmful beasts
of prey. The poor beasts at any rate tell
no lies, and after death their skins are of
some value; but who shall measure the
mischief done by false tongue,-and of
what use is the corpse of liar save to in
feet the air with pestilence? l used to
wonder at the superiority of men over
the rest of the animal creation, but see
now that 1t is chiefly gained by excess of
selfish cunning. The bulky, good
natured, ignorant lion who has only one
honest way of defending himself, namely
with tooth and claw, is no match for the
jumping, two-legged little rascal who
hides himself behind bush and fires q
gun aimed direct at the bigger brute's
heart Yet the lions mode of battle is
the drawer of the two, and the cannOns,
torpedoes, and other implements of mod
ern warfare are proofs of mans coward
ice and cruelty as much as they are of
his diabolical ingenuity. Calmly COM
pairing the ordinary lives of men and
them by their abstract
virtues merely am inclined to think
the beasts the more respectable Of the |
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