The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-24
"TWIXT CUP AND LIP.
Lovely Isn't shcY"
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lest wild rose that-that ever grew on a
hedge But you don't seem to understand
that don't care for mere prettiness in a
woman's face. 1t is soul that l look for. :"
81 see. You like it in the face. Personal
ly L am content with it in its rightful
abodc-namcly, the body
You talk like IA Look herel Drop
humbugging. If II person has great deal
of soul-by which | mean feeling, intelli-
gencc and all that-it always looks out of
the eyes, doesn't itY"
Eyes, | agree with you there, but the
point is that something very like it often
looks out of the cyCs-something, l grant
you, very fetching and fascinating, but
when you try and get behind it you find
it's nothing but little bit of affectation.
Why, after all, being soulful or the reverse
is only matter of fashion
ooh, l can't talk to you Your ideas of
women are all abominablc rot, if you IL
excuse my saying so.
Don't mention it, All the same, l
know more of women than you do. I'm
only putting you on your guard Tell Inc
some more of your golden haired goddess. "
Cant you be serious? I'm in earnest
this time. I want to talk seriously about
her. l want to know what you think of
her."
"Woll, think she's pretty; l think her
eyes are blue and guileless; L think her
hair the brightest and her figure the neat
est l have ever seem and l think-I have
met her before somewhere. Yet she didn' t
seem to remember me, did sheY 1t must
have been before | went to the cape Let
me sac--two years ago. Tell me- has she
ever loved bcforcY For surely, with SO much
hnu ie irGth ri
she has taken captive"
"Look here. Drop poetry. That's just
what | want to tell you about, only, upon
my word, You make it so jolly hard for a
chap to tell you anything. What's come
over you? One would think by the way
you talk about women that you'd been
crossed in love or something, only L cam
think any woman would be such an idiot.
| / suppose you're about the most popular
man about town. Why don't you drop
cynicism and get married."
"NevCr nIind me, you were going to tell
me that
"Shes been engaged before"
"Well, that's not serious. Most of them
have. Who broke it Off"
'She, of course You don't imagine any
fellow who had once won her dear little
heart would part with it in hurry, do
you? From all / can make out the man
was lazy scoundrel and she, to show
you the good sort she is, didn't care to
marry u man who lounged about all his
days and never exerted himself to work
! for her."
Had he no money!
"Only paltry $4,000 "A year. What
that to a girl like her? OF course natural
! ly she wants, with her good looks, to hold
some sort of u position in town. She, like
the good angel she is, tried to spur him on
to work, but he as good as told her that ii
20, 600 year wasn't enough for her, well
it ought to be, or something like that.
! Then he went abroad. y
(Tom Goring to himselD "To the cape
and returned unexpectedly, but in time. u
(Aloud) Eyes? Anything elsc?"
Eyes. Not only that, but he was u con
foundcdly jealous brute"
absolutely without cause?"
"Of course, just as though girl with
her lofty ideas would stoop to Irritation
when she was engaged to be married"
"Look here, Malcolm, you take her part
Naturally you're bit down on the char
she was engaged to. D'you think it quite
fair when you've only heard one sidei
Suppose l told you l knew the fellow she
was engaged to?'
"Well, should still take her part
"Quite right l admire you for it, but
give the other fellow chance and look
before you leap. Love is all very well, but
beware of infatuation, my boy You've
known her how long?"
1.-TWO months, and I've seen her every
day. Last night, as you know, she accept
ed me-
"And your 210, 900 year and your fu
ture chance-a very good one-of baro
netcy. No, don't get up; keep calm. don Z
want to see you make IA mess of your life
First of all, when you began to talk about
her thought it was just another of YOU
larks. l thought probably you could TAKE
care of yourself. But, upon my word, you r.
bit too trustful, not to say green, for this
wicked world; so, though l don't like in
terfering, I'll just tell you something yor
ought to know, and then you can think il
over and take your own way. III have M
more to say. You've known me all YOU
life-haven't you?-and you profess, l be
lieve, to have good opinion of me. A
any rate, you know I'm not "a liar. l know
the fellow she was engaged to. l hav'
known him for years. He wasn't bat
) sort; bit lazy, perhaps, but still-well
anyway, he's got heaps of friends don
fiancee but just this-she never spurret
him on to work. She knew work was GU
of the question for him. He wasn't SO yer.
young, poor chap. Had to winter abroad
occasionally, and that sort of thing-noth
ing serious. When she heard his incom,
was only II paltry go, 900 Il year, she just
set about finding an excuse to be out of it,
"Once, with his own ears, accidentally
this fellow overheard her talking To hei
dearest girl friend, and this was what she
said, L haven't the heart to break it of
with him, he's so much in love, but In
Just flirting about all | can so that he may
have an excuse to back out of it. -
Il don't believe it. It's II gross SANDER
If could get hold of that fellow, by .Jovc
I'd thrash him. That's his story. VIII!
should you believe it more than hers? Iol
bring me face to face with that fellow
that's all "