Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-27
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All, that's an idle subject, isn't it:
BY the by, you have a sneaking regard
yourself for that bridal creature
you admire the woman, don't YOU
admire her! Yes, as a woman, of
course | do. Why, she is-superb!
With that mature strong tenderness
in every line of her, and that divine
protecting patient air of hers-that
woman might be a mother of nations"
Strange started and his mouth
twitched suddenly, the blood stopped
in his veins and red and blue>4stars
swan before his eyes. Gwen went on
unheeding, in her passiOnleSs tones
THAT woman is not, however, me.
[ am a beautiful girl-that. and no
lnore-I contain nothing, l assure yoI,
nothing that could be moulded into
that woman"
You contain everything" said her
| husband slowly, only the deuce Of the
matter is, that none of us know where
to find it,
"No, nor ever will"
She leaned forward so that her
breath touched his cheek. "Humphrey,
[ wish you had never seen that pic
ture! This necessity for idealization is
an insult to me and to yOurself-you
should have had more insight from
the beginning"
My good child" he said laughing
softly, Il thought the experiment was
an avOWed fact"
She drew in her lips sharply, and
was silent.
When she spoke again her voice was
rather hOarse.
Il have often tried to imagine the
things that go to a murder, and
really do think | understand the i'm
pulse now. l shall never altogether
| hate Il murderer again. l am glad j
know; one feels better-more liberal
for every new sensation"
Strange laughed.
"And, after all, it was all supremacy
silly" she went on, "the experiment is
two-sided, but you have no idea how
infinitely brutal the bald fact sound
BALD facts mostly do"
'WCll-there is reason even in eX-
| am not a dramatic creature given to
sudden new developments, 1 am nc
emporium for the creation of fresh sen
sations; here [ am, finished and com.
plete."
Strange laughed.
" 'Finished and cOmpleter Was ever
conceit like unto hers! My good girl
you are neither"
She threw up her head.
'Well, here [ am then, unfinished
and incomplete"
"Ah, but Nature invariably finishes
her work if it's worth the tooIs.''
Like Providence shapes our ends
she sneered with modulated savage
ness. "Ah, this marriage truly is al
experiment! Look at those two at the
WindOW-that girl and that man, that
stunted creature there! Perhaps he's
an artist. She has a measly look and
| the mans nose is awful! They are
not scrap like BrOWning's artist and
the girl, and yet, [ fancy, they think
themselves in love with one another
tell the man to stop for a minute!-
! here, here, at this house there, do
you see the idiotic simpers All, yes
that's love! And the two will marry,
no doubt, on next ShrOve Tuesday.
but it won't be an experiment, l don't
think either of the pair looks as if he
| or she went in for observing new
! phases"
| "Ihey,u have enough to do to keep
the wolf from the door. Perhaps in
| time, instead of observing new phases
they'll punch one another's heads if
they must have fresh sensations"
lis that the usual and orthodox end
to being in loye-punching the head
physically or morally, according to the
rank of the lOvers?"
NO, the methods vary according to
the quality of love. Have you had
enough, shall we drive on?"
She nodded.
IF it's worth its salt, of course
| there's no end"
zone even continuous stream into
! the ocean f-Nothingness! How APP
| paIlingly trite and stale-nothing fresh.
| nothing new!'
The state has Il quite peculiar fire sh-
ness of its own, l am told, which is
| perenniaIand here we are at the
| door,"