Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-10-08

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Of one person g society will advance both
in enormous strides, whether for good or
evil, because the continuity Of your emo
ton ia not broken it runs oonsecutively,
with no thousand outside things to dis
tract you from it, and a whole idyl or
tragedy, half q dozen volumes even Of
feeling, may be run through in an
amazingly short period Of time That
night, for the first time, Nannie's cour'
age failed her; she could not face the
long, miserable drive with Will, and
she pleaded headache, and he went off
alone, white Tipped, haggard young
bridegroom, who assuredly reflected no
credit on the bride who owned him. He
was young, strong, and he recoiled from
his fate. He loved every hair Of her
head; the chance touch Of her hand
thrilled him; the feast Of her sweet face
was ever new to his eyes. Yet he knew
that after few brief weeks Of marriage
it had actually come to this-that they
had drifted apart, and that every day,
every hour, they were drifting farther.
The life of rich people is ordered so
tremendously there is so little occasion
for them to think, and everything pos
sible ia so deity done for them that the
little they have to say and do to pass
muster is infinitesimal, and it is so easy
for people to keep at distance from
each other in great house.
II Angelina is obliged to ask Edwin
II he will have pork chops for luncheon
1o%c lofI rt,1
to take birdseye view Of their last
shilling, there may be more friction,
but the chances Of rapprochement are
greater than when only the common
courtesies of everyday life have to be OK
changed, and it is here that life's COM
pensations, alike to king and peasant,
come in. For instance, it is mistake
to pity the lower orders, more especially
the women, for they have one great lux
ury utterly denied to the poor gentle
women-they can falkland gossip to
them is food and sleep and drink, and
to freely talk out their husbands vices
(unlimited) and their good qualities, ii
any, keeps their souls fresh and healthy,
70 that nothing troubles them much. No
cheeks, and having thoroughly abused
their man" and turned him inside
out they are able to meet him with
that tabled smile, of which we have all
heard, when he comes home to his tea.
And yet Will knew that it was not
temper or unsuitability or any other
thing that had come between him and
Mamie, but simply Trelawny-and in a
minor way his own passing admiration
for Hagar's beauty, to which he had so
long been blind.
As the feet horses bore him through
the exquisite freshness and peace OF the
early autumn evening he leaned out to
look through the wrought iron gates at
the old gray and green ivied walls OF
Laud Abbey, Trelawny's house, beyond.
and asked himself in sober earnest II
he had not done wrong IN wrestling Nan
ME from the strong man who dwelt
within those gates and who had never
for one instant come under Hagar's In
fueuce as weaker men had done.
Away from her, Will almost hated
the woman beside her, as he inevitably
must be in the constant intercourse be-
tween the two houses, he felt himself
subdued, under q spell, and the stran-
eest thing of all was that Mamie was
affected in precisely the same way, all
her jealousy and hatred in absence van
ishing at sight Of Hagar, so that they
conversed with the graciousness OF
friends.
At dinner that night he talked at ran
dom to his hostess, who was wise
woman and rose superior to the dlsar-
rangement Of her table, knowing by in
stinot that the young husband and wife
bad already fallen out, as was only nat
ural in thos first deadly trying weeks
Of union in which two hearts, two tenn
peraments, two idiosyncrasies, two
widely different souls believe they must
fuse into an absolutely perfect whole
. or marriage is to be CHASTITY failure:
Her motherly heart sched for him
when he took himself away. 1t would
have concerned itself more had 1t known
what the sequel to the evening would
be, 80 swiftly were events marching for
these young people upon whom the gods
so lately seemed to have lavishly poured
out all their favors.
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