News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-08-03

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space rs Kenyon drclO near
1t is Mr.. Thomas Hughes who asks in
Tom Brown at Oxford. (which is the
true-aye, and the brave-man, he who
trembles before Il woman or he before
whom Il woman trembles? There are
men who could have found it no difficult
matter To fatty decline to serve even as
temporary escort to Il woman so evil
IDENTIFY bent on mischief-who could
have rebuked then and there the as
sumption of intimacy and prOprietorship
which if unchallenged might mean dis
aster. Brewster did neither. She read
him well enough to see that, though he
was too indignant to permit himself to
speak, he was also too much of Il gentle
man to snub her. Bravely therefore she
bore her part, keeping up an animated
flow of meaningless words until fairly
out of the hoproOm, then promptly shift
ing to that feminine coigne of vantage
wherein lies woman's greatest strength
IA gush of silent tears. She knew too
much to add reproaches, accusations,
angry words; that would have given
him something to answer, something to
overthrow. 1t is only when woman
weeps, silently, desolately, showing no
anger, making no charge, that she has
man at her mercy. Utterly false us was
the position in which she had placed
Brewster before the garrison world at
this moment, he actually did not know
but that he might be blamable for all
that he might be much less sinned
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only so much of one us the strongest OF
his kind sometimes become in the hands
of the softer sex. Samson had his De-
lilah; Hercules, Omphale; Belis;lrius,
poor devil, had both AntOnia and Theo-
dora.
1t was bad enough to have her shrink
20 the opposite side of the carriage tho
instant he had assisted her in and there
give way to apparently uncomfortable
weeping; it was bad enough to have to
gtand there for moment or two until
the lady's long suffering spouse should
be hunted up (he had been having
cigar with one or two of the elders IN
the sanctity of the little smoking ROOM;
but what made matters simply intoler-
able was that Just at the foot of the
stairs, under the broad gallery, just
where the lantern on the big pillar
would shine full upon himself and his
lachrymose partner, stood Major Berren
in earnest conversation with Captain
Rolfe, and both looked up, glanced
quickly but searchingly at him and at
her, raising their forage caps i'll silent
salutation, and turned away. Poor
Curly! As in duty bound, he leaned
into the carriage, not too ardently beg
ging the weeping dame to say what had
so distressed her, but she would not re-
ply
Possibly she thought he might yet b.
induced to Chamber in after her, ana
there in the dark interior tenderly be-
seech her to speak; but he was all eager
ness to hasten back to the hoproom.
If he could but have speech with Mrs.
Berrien moment, he might make her
understand the situation; she had al
ways been cordial and sympathetic.
I But it was three or four minutes, per-
haps, before Knowles came, thanked
him for his attention to his wife,
stepped in, and-how her tears were
explained to her hege lord nobody
knows. Somebody who knew her, how
ever, was mean enough to suggest that
they were of the theatrical and control
liable order, and, as Randolph expressed
it, ''she braced up and grinned as soon
as Curly was left behind"
The instant the carriage rolled away
Brewster turned and sped up the stairs