The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-02-20
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Certainly she puts to shame tho love
Hest wild rose that-that ever grew on .
hedge But you don't seem to understand
that I don't care for mere prettiness In a
womans face. 1t Is soul that look for. "
"Isee. You like 1t in the face Personal.
ly I am content with 1t in Its rightful
abode-namely, the body"
"You talk like A. Look herei Drop
humbugging. If q person has great deal
Of soul--by which mean feeling, intelli.'
gence and all that-it always looks out Of
the eyes, doesn't itp"
Eyes, 1 agree with you there, but the
point Is that something very like 1t often
looks out of the eyes-something, I grant
you, very fetching and fascinating, but
when you try and get behind 1t you find
it's nothing but a little bit Of affectation.
Why, after all, being soulful or the reverse
is only matter Of fashion"
"Oh, / can't talk to you. Your ideas Of
women are all abominable rot, II youth
excuse my saying So"
I H"Dont mention 1t. All the game,
know more of women than you do. I'm
only putting you on your guard. Tell me
some more of your golden haired goddess. "
"Can't you be serious? I'm in earnest
this time l want to talk seriously about
her. want to know what you think OF
her."
- "Well, I think she's pretty; I think her
eyes are blue and guileless; think her
hair the brightest and her figure the neat
est have ever seen, and l think-I have
met her before somewhere. Yet she didn't
seem to remember me, did sheP 1t must
have been before went to the cape. Let
me see-two years ago. Tell me, has she
ever loved beforef 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 1t so jolly hard for
chap to tell you anything. What's come
over your One would think by the way
you talk about women that you'd been
crossed in love or something, only L can't
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 marriedr'
"Never mind me, you were going to tell
me that -.Ey1
"She's teen engaged hefore7'A
"Well, that's'not serious. Most of them
have. Who broke IL off"
"She, of course. You don't imagine any
fellow who had once won her dear little
heart would part with,it in u hurry, do
your From all / Gun make, out the man
was O lazy scoundrel, and she, to show
YOU the good sort she Is, didn't care to
marry man who lounged about all his
days and never exerted himself to work
for her,"
Had he no money!"
"Only paltry e., 900 a year. What's
that to girl like herr 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 us told her that If
e2, 1000 u year wasn't enough for her, well
it ought to be, or something like that.
Then he went abroad"
(Tom Goring to himself) "To the cape
and returned Unexpectedly, but in time"
(Aloud) "YesY Anything else!"
Eyes. Not only that, but he was a con-
foundedly 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 u
"Look here Malcolm, you take her part.
Naturally you're bit down on the chap
she was engaged to. D'you think it's quite
fair when you've only heard one sidei
Suppose told you knew the fellow she
was engaged tor
WELL should still take her part.
"Quite right. admire you for it, but
give the other fellow chance and look
before you leap. Love is all very we'll, 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
cd me-
"And your et0, 900 year and your flu
ture chance-a very good 0ne--of baro-
netcy No, don't get up; keep calm. don't
want to see you make a mess of your life.
First of all, when you began to talk about
her l thought it was just another of your
larks. thought probably you could take
care Of yourself. But, upon my word, you're
q bit too trustful, not to say green, for this
wicked world SO, though don't like in
terfering, I'll just tell you something you
ought to know, and then you can think 1t
over and take your own way. I'll have no
more to say. You've known me all your
life-haven't you?-and you profess, be-
lieve, to have good opinion of me. At
any rate, you know I'm not liar. know
the fellow she was engaged to. have
known him for years. He wasn't bad
sort; bit lazy, perhaps, but still-well,
anyway, he's got heaps of friends don't
want to say anything bad of your-your
tlancce but just this-she never sprlrred
him on to work. She knew work was out
of the question for him. He wasn't so very
young, poor chap. Had to winter abroad
occasionally, and that sort of thing-noth-
ing serious When she heard his income
was only paltry $4,000 a year, she just
set about finding an excuse to be out of it.
"Oncc, with his own ears, accidentally
this fellow overheard her talking to her
dearest girl friend, and this was what she
said 1 haven't the heart to break it off
with him, he's so much in love, but m
just flirting about all can so that he may
have an excuse to back out of'it.'"
II don't believe it. It's a gross SANDER.
II could get hold of that fellow, by Jove,
I'd thrash him. That's his story. Why
should you believe it more than hersS You
bring me face to face with that fellow,
that's all.
"Thats very easily done"
"What d'you meanp'
at am that fellow Sit paul's