Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-09-30
SOME PEN PICTURES.
THEODORE DURRANT AS HE APP
PEARS IN COURT.
The Ostentatious Solicitations of the
Mother and other side
Lights

of the world, patient Judge and
jury, excited lawyers, crowd of
reporters and numerous petty Of
ficials, a courtroom thronged
with curious spectators, all with |
their attention fixed on him, Theo-
dore Durrant sits the central f.
CURE In Judge Murphy's court.
No one else in tlat room is so
distinguished. Even free from
the associations of the last few
months, and to an unprejudiced
mind, there is something unpleas-
antly striking in tie defendants
full, front gaze. The deep set,
cavernous eyes are not the windows
of the soul-they simply present
mystery, fathomless density of
conscious life.
He is distinguished again by
his air of conscious self-import.
ance, NOT the self-importance of
one who feels that he has done
something large, something out of
the common, monstrous though it
be, but the self-in portance of the
dude, of the soc ty man, who is
conscious of knowing how to,
please the other sex and of car
rying himself correctly and ad-
mirably in all situations. One
expects to find a man who is be-
ing tried for so abnormal crime
indivdualized from his fellows.
We unconsciously expect the man
on trial for his life to be some
thing apart from his fellows, "a
being with law all to himself.
Not so Mr.. Durrant. He is in
many respects the typical Cali
fornia- bred young man, scrupu-
lous about his personal ap-
pearance, limited in his idea
of manner, but faithful to his con.
ception of it. He gives a little
affected cough every now and then
and puts up his carefully mani
cured hand to conceal it. h
twists his little blonde moustache
and smiles in an Indifferent, en-.
nuye manner.
But through all this mannerism
this acting, a sensitive person is
conscious of Mr.. Durrant's per-
sonal atmosphere, of those indie
fina BILE, psychic emanations which
are in the last analysis the bes
determination of character. Hi,
presence does not carry one intc
the realm of the ideal.
Mrs. Durrants morning saluta
ton to her Son is peculiar. AR
mother and son, however dee
their mutual affection, usually s
demonstrative in public Mrs
Durrant raises her carefully ad
iusted veil and imprints linger
ing, apparently tender, kiss o
the young mans lips. But Their
Is nothing tender about Mrs. Dur
rant. Her eyes are hard an
bright and cold; they could nc
glow with enthusiasm; they coul
, not be suffused with sympatheti
tears they could not beam good-wiI
on mankind. Even more than he
son she is conscious of her audi
ence. Whatever the outcome {
this trial, Mrs. Durrant is LITE
from the commonplace forever
She is no longer an ordinary ma
ron of the middle class. She il
and will be until her death, tt
mother of Theodore Darrant. ST
is intensely conscious of this fac
and takes pains not to lose an
point.
With fine sense of the apprc
priateness of things, she is care
fully gowned, wears fashionab
hat and toys with the roses 81
always carries. She hast N
, missed detail necessary to II
! artistic effect. She, too, is pun
I tilious as to manner
Theodore Durrant and h
D mother exchange conscious smile
like lovers who have secrets tn
, nobody else can divine, and o