The Topeka state journal., 1897-02-24
'TWIXT CUP AND LIP.
''Lovelyl Isn't sheY''


Certainly she puts to shame the love-
Hest wild rose that-that ever grew on q
hedge. But you don't seem to understand
that don't care for mere prettiness in q
woman's face. 1t is soul that look for
81 see. You like it in the face. Personal
ly am content with it in its rightfuI
abode-ramely, the BODY
"You talk like "a Look hereI Drop
humbugging. If person has great deal
of soul-by which mean feeling, intelli-
gcnce and all that-it always looks out OF
the eyes, doesn't it?''
Eyes, agree with you there, but the
point is that something very like it often
looks out of the something, 1 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 al. being soulful or the reverse
is only matter of fashion"
''Oh, can't talk to you. Your ideas Of
women are all aborninable rot, if you'll
excuse my saying so. -
Don't mention it. All the same, I
know more of women than you do. I'm
only putting you on your guard. Tell me
some moro of your golden haired goddess.
Cant you be serious? I'm in earnest
this time. want to talk seriously abous
her. want to know what you think OF
her.
''Well, think she's pretty; think her
eyes are bluo and guileless; think her
hair the brightest and her figure the neat
est have ever seen, and think have
met her before somewhere. Yet she didn't
seem to remember me, did she? 1t must
have been before 1 went to the cape. Let
me see-tTo years ago. Tell me, has she
ever loved before? For surely, with so much
beauty and soul, yours is not the first heart
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
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 can't
think any woman would be such an idiot
suppose you're about the most pOpulaK
man about town. Why don't you drop
cynicism and get married.
ttNever mind me, you were going to tell
me that
s'She's been engaged before
ttWell, that's not serious. Nest OF them
have. Who broke it OFF,
'sShe, of course. You don't imagine any
fellow who had once won her dear lttla
heart would part with it in a hurry, do
you? From all L can make, out the man
was a lazy scoundrel, and she, to show
you the good sort she is, didn't care to
marry a man who 1ounged about all his
days and never exerted himself to work
for her. ="
Had he no mOney?'
"Only q paltry e2, GOO a year. What's
that TO a girl like her? OF course natural
ly she wants, with her good looks to hold
some sort of a 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
e2, 600 year wasn't enough for her, well
it ought to be, or something like that.
Then he went abroad. y
(To1n Goring to hinself) "To the cape
and returned unexpectedly, but in time. "
(AIoud) Eyes? Anything elseP"
eyes. Not only that, but he was con-
foundedly jealous brute. -
Absolutely without cause?"
"Of course, just as though a 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 a Bit down on the chap
she was engaged to. D'you think it's quito
fair when you've only heard one sides
Suppose told you 1 knew the fellow she
was engaged to?''
"Well, 1 should still take her part
"Quite right. 1 admire you for it, but
give the other fellow q chance and look
before you leap. Love is all very well, but
beware of infatuation, my boy. you've
known her how long?''
''Two months, and I've seen her every
day. Last night, as you know, she accept
ed me-
''And your e1O, 900 year and your fu-
ture chance very good one-Of a baro-
netcy. No, don't get up; keep calm. Idon'a
want to see you make a mess of your lie.
First of all, when you began to talk about
her thought it was just another of your
larks. I thought probably you could take
care OF yourself. But, upon my word, your
a bit too trustful, not to say green, for this
wicked world; SO, though 1 don't like in
terfcring, III just tell you something you
ought to know, and then you caL, think i.
over and take your own way. III have no
more to say. You've known me al your
hfe-haven't t you?-and you profess, be-
lieve, to have a good opinion Of me- AZ
any rate, you know I'm not a liar. I know
the fellow she was engaged to. have
known him for years He wasn't a bad
sort; bit lazy, perhaps, but stiu-wel,
anyway, he's got heaps of friends. don's
want to say anything bad of your-your
1ancee but just this-she never spurred
him ON to work. She knew work was out
of the question for him. He WASH t so very
young, poor chap. Had to winter abroad
occasionally, and that sort of thing-noeh-
ing serious. Wien she heard his income
was only q paltry 81, 900 a 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 her
dearest girl friend, and this was what she
said, I haven't the heart to break it OF
with him, he's so much in love, but I'm
Just frting about all 1 can so that he may
have excuse to back out OF it. -
q don't believe it. It's gross slander.
If could get hold of that fellow, BY Jove,
I'd thrash him. That's his story. Why
should you believe it more than hers? You
bring me face to face with that fellow,
that's ALL
''Thats very easily done"
"What d'you I1ean?''
81 am that fellow st. Paula
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