New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13

mory Of marriage to inurddtc me win matuu-
nal conversation | should be rendered at once
miserable a feeling Of dcccncy would prevent
my showing it; | should suppress it. That sup
preston would al destroy all opcnness be-
tween as.
You take, / think" interrupted Miss Great
crcx "a ryiorhid view Of the duty Of conJugaI
confidence. You would push it too far"
NY views are always high Perhaps | do;
but that is how it strikes me. Every morning
| should join you at the breatfas' table with the
unspoken terror that you we're about to converse.
think 1t possible that you also like TO talk in
the train and in cabs"'
Miss Groatorcx asserted that such was indeed
the case: Mr. Markham sat down on a chair
at some little distance.
Exactly. And to talk in the train only makes
nc less passonately angry than having to speak
! to anybody above all to answer their questions.
in a cab"
"Of course" remarked the young lady. Wishing
to al!ay the anxiety Of her friend, you viii
recoect that the present discussion is purely
acaaemical. | have never definitely asked you
to bc my husband.
No" h admitted. very handsomely. Il re-
member taat | have admired you for not push
ing your advantage. Any day within the last
woek you rght have suggested it. and Heaven
]
very improbable that should have been suni-
GENTLY firm
You almost tempt me to try"
Mir Markham rais,d lis hand.
wait" he cried. "Do let us finish this most
Interesting conversation. What would wish to
express is his that marriage when one is really
in love seems t. me to vulgarZe the situation.
1t makes To use the familiar expression, a bust
ness Of pleasure. or, more accurately. To
make into n vulgar business matter what should
be jealousy guarded from any faint OF busne
suggestion"
Your objections are after all proper only to
the modern MARRIAGE"
/ II was NOS" he confessed, thinking about the
Garden Of Eden Business IN its infancy
thon-so was marriage.
! For my part" he continued, Il dislike any
thing soon as it becomes "A duty | used to
| like hun ing since they made me Master ! look
! forward to the autumn as a parson looks for
ward TO Sunday. and yet there time when
he Doubtless loved going to church, when ii
only a permissible recreation. Surprising it were
ore OF the Ten Commandments that should
go to a ball every Monday and the opera every
| Wedne sday,"
And you mean that you would dislike the
/ duty of being permanently in love with me-"
/
marks becoming too general. though 4 tenn
porary sentimental! excursion you have not hith-
| erto found il disagree cable"
"Wha; Grd faul; with is" he declared. with
cut very directly replying to her que stion that
un.css one were to marry you one could rot do
several things one would like For instance.
would like very much to take you to India"
when" inquired the young lady, with some
| what startling dcCrt.euess
Not h. replied. 'till, say, October. India
in the middle of the season you would not enjoy
a bit But really fear (unless We do get mar
riod) the trip is impossible. All the same. /
should love to explain the Tai to you. and
Shah Aims mosque at Ahn ,dabad-Oh and
the Golden Gates at san Francisco; it is tire
some that | cannot take you there without
marrying you"
You could take mamma as well, and Aunt
Adela, perhaps"
That would be different. A superior plan for
those to whom it commends itself, but person
ally should rot like il much
Miss CreltoreX laughed. Mr.. Markham left
his aequestercd seat and took one beside her on
the little sofa.
Were you thinking" asked the lady, that
ycu would like to take my hand?"
Il have thought that before. | was thinking
| of taking it. NOW. If we were married" he
continued after an interval this would be my
business. 1t would lie expected of me as it is
of a Ken to lay eggs. or the Prince of Wales to
lay OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
And then it would cease to please"
ut would then become detestable And often
lately have pictured myself as riding home in
the deepening dusk Of a winters afternoon from
hunting, either with you by my side or to find
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