Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-27

ment. And Mrs. Midhurst was actually
writing out the advertisement for The
Times, and The Morning Post, and The
Guardian which was to announce to all
the world that young lady desired an
engagement as governess when her hus-
band burst in with the extraordinary
news that Mr.. Rosendale. who had
CHANGED to travel with Janey from
Flushing ON her return, and who had
afterward by still greater chance met
her when asked to lunch at the Mid
hursts', and stared very much at her. az
they all remarked. had fallen in love
with and wanted to marry this humble
little girl.
Fallen in love with Janeyr' Mrs.
Midhurst cried. Fallen in love with
you, Janey" said Agnes Midhurst,
with little emphasis ON the pronoun.
He was not indeed. they all felt, quite
good enough to have permitted himself
the luxury Of falling in love with Mr..
Midhurst's daughter, but he was an as
tonishing match for Janey. he, was a
man who was very we'll of. He could
afford himself such a caprice as that.
He was not handsome. There was a
strain Of Jewish blood in him. He was
thickset little man, and did not dress
or talk in perfect taste, but-in love!
These two words made all the differ
ence. Nobody had ever loved her. much
less been Gin love" with her.
Janey had never said anything on
this subject, but she had felt it as long
as she remembered feeling anything.
People liked her we'll enough wherever
she went. They were civil to her. kind
TO her. acknowledging her little virtues,
but she had never had anybody, not
even an old nurse, to love her. And that
some one on whom she had no claim,
whom she had never seen but twice,
should fall in love with her, as in oil
the novels, at first sight!
Janey consented willingly enough for
the magic Of these two words. She felt
that she was going to be like the best of
women at last-to have some one who
loved her, some one who was in love
with her. He might not be "joli, joli,"
rs they say in France. She might not
feel any very strong impulse ON her own
part toward. him, but if he was in love
with her-in love! Romeo was mo more
than that with Juliet. The thought
went to Janey's head. She married him
quite willingly for the sake of this.
I am afraid that Janey, being young
and shy and strange, was good deal
frightened, Mortified, and even revolted,
by her first discoveries Of what IT meant
to be in love. She had made tremendous
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had found out that Mr.. Rosendale, her
husband. was in love with her beauty,
but as Indifferent to herself as any Of
the persons she had quilted to give her.
self to him. He did not care at all what
she thought, how she felt, what she
liked or disliked. He did not care even
for her comfort or that she should be
pleased and happy which in the first
moment even Of such a union. and out
of pure self regard to make a woman
more agreeable to himself, man-even
the most brutal-generally does consid-
er more or less. He was perhaps not
aware that he did not. consider it. He
took it for granted that. being his wife.
she would naturally be pleased with
what pleased him, and his mind went
no further than this.
Therefore, as far as Janey liked the
things he liked. all Invent we'll enough.
She had these, but no other. Her wishes
We're not consulted further, nor did he
know that he failed in any way toward
her. He had little to say to. her, except
expressions of admiration. When he was
not telling her that she was q little
beauty. or admiring her pretty hair.
her pretty eyes, the softness of her skin
and the smalhess Of her waist, he's had
nothing to say. He read his paper, dis.
appearing behind it in the morning. he
went to sleep after his midday hneal,
for the weather was warm. He played
billiards in the evening in the hotels to
which he took her ON their wedding
journey, OF he overwhelmed her with
caresses from which she shrank in dis
gust, almost in terror.
That was all that being in love meant,
she found, and to say that she was dis
appointed cruelty was to express in the
very mildest way the dreadful downfall
of all her expectations and hopes which
happened to Janey before she had beer
seven days wife. 1t is not disagreeablt
to be told that you are little beauty
prettier than any one else. Janey would
have been very we'll pleased to put ul
with that. but to be petted like ittlt
lapdog and then left as lapdog is
to be quiet and not to trouble in the in
tervals Of petting-was to the poor littl,
girl. unaccustomed to love and athirs
for it, who had hoped to be loved and t.
find companion to whom she would b
truly dear, a disenchantment and disap
pointment which was almost moro tina,
flesh and blood could bear
: She was in the full bitterness of thes,
discoveries when the strange incident &C
Cured which was of so much impor
: lance in her life. They had passed sew
eral days in Paris in q luxury of fin,
dinners which fancy was not old enough
: or experienced enough to appreciate. bu
which had pleased her husband NOR,
: than anything. and he had taken her t,
several theaters, where Janey thought sh,
, would have died for shame, she, tn,
prim little we'll brought up English girl
at the things she had to hear and see
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