Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-01-03
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Strange called her divinity"
at is one of the things which keeps
me 10 remote, 80 absolutely aloof, she
Thought hurriedly, what do women
want with divinity or any other super
human attribute? | believe Rossettl
must have thought Of me for his LII
It'll"
She stood up half absently and look
cd into mirror near at hand, then
she moved away suddenly with sneef
ing lips and a quick flush.
"That's not the fire. her husband
thought, "Oh, Lord, what's up nowF
After a few minutes she went slowly
over to the piano, and began to play
In vague fitful way. Her husband
dropped the paper he had taken ~,
and listened. 1t struck him That her
playing had altered, It used 70 be
mechanical and rather expresslonless,
no one could accuse it Of want Of cN-
Dresslon tonight even IL the expression
did limit itself TO anger and unrest
After time she stopped playing
with one dissatisfied, disordered chord
then there was a little pause which
she broke by singing, first softly and
half humming, then she seemed 10
awaken with start and she sang on,
song after song, with sort Of excited
vehemence. Her voice was a low con-
tralto, there was not a sharp nor
hard tone in It, but there were some
strong harsh ones. like the groans OF
men. and some deep cultural ones, Ike
the signs OF women; there was no pas
sion In her voice, but 1t was full Of
consuming soft tumults Of vague sad
unrest.
! "This Is rather pleasanter modiii
4 ."This is rather a pleasanter modiii-
cation Of her first stormsH' thought
Strange. "What possibilities there are
In that voice, | wonder what would
! happen II | went over and tried to
kiss that dead woman into life! Pyg-
malion's task was fool to mine, what
Il marble to an undevelopcd woman"
He stood behind her and joined in
with her song, his bass to her contrFtl-
to. The combination gave one rather
a shock at first. but 1t grew fascinating
as they went on.
Gwen stopped suddenly in the middle
of song.
+ ~ could not have believed our two
voices coul d ever mix and make COM
pleteness.
I ut Is sport
Il like explicable things best, she
said, peering OF into the semi-gloom
"You go about with a scalpel in your
brain, Gwen! What n thing it Is to
come Of scientific stock9
ooh, it's a dlabolical thing for a
woman!' said Gw9n.
She shut the piano up softly m she
never by any chance banged things
i,nd went upstairs to dress,
II shall wear that silk that look
81 shall wear that silk that looks
like flesh" she said.
II put Ii away, your ladyship, You
said You did not like Il"
III YOU could get at 1t quite easily,
| should like to wear 1t tonight
flesh and blood, with no remote divini-
IN about it," she Thought "Oh, | wish
! could let things be, and stop poking
about among mysteries. ! Will touch
him tonight yes, | will | wonder
/ wonder IL can possibly muster up
strength for a kiss"
CHAPTER NNN
Mrs Fell1Wcs, meanwhile, was hav-
Inc a most unsatisfactory time with
the Park people; it seemed absolutely
impossible 10 dlS into them or to be
of any service to them They were
wearing her to skin and bone, and she
was meditatinG Il change somewhere
or other, when one day, crossing the
hall irs, after lunch, she heard knock
at the door aud opened it herself.
She found Mr. ana Mrs. WariuS
standing in their normal attitude and
looking frightfully embarrassed; she
saw at glance that they locked queer
er than usual and not feeling equa
81 than usual ana not feeling equal
inst AZ that minute b face them alone,
sne carried them straight 10 the dir-
mg.raum.
"th, The Nineteenth Cepury, ! per
cciye, said Nr Warins as soon rs he
lbultl HllllNGAl VI ~ AAAI6ls " AAA& ht'
hat graSped In one land ana the other
on the edge Of lis knee Ndn The flng-
IRIS stretched out and feeling neryodsly
in banked way.
In that last nj icle Of ST George
MiyartS. continued Mir Warlug." we
mud i? marked evidence Of The deter
iorating effect Of any special bias Oh
a man's mind If this man We're not
ali ardent chn0hmal Of the Romish
persuasion have always thought he
nigh, have done we'll in literary
scieuee but as 1t IL II seems To me-
he has So much confused the thread
0t hi> discourse rs ia reuder Ii com
plratively valueleSs by weaving into
, IL With most conscientious persistence,
stray fragments Of fhe deductions he
Has drawn from his own crude creed
This demands, on ths readers part
a searching, Sitting process. which the
intrinsic value af the gertleman's ar
ticles t. my mind hardy warrants
"Ah ytu like Your science neat"
, said tine rector SO possibly might l.
II had time to collect my own facts :"