Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1901-05-11

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'Basil, wouldn't go on"
''Why not?' 49,
Because there is candor I cannot
endure and keep my self respect"
'Then I'm not to speak the whole
truth? I'm to keep my reservationT'
81 think you'd better" 2
"Where are you goingY'
'To my room"
II shall not be home to dinner"
"Neither shall IL ~
'"Why not2'' s
Because Pm going away"
! 'To stay overnight" FSsH
'"To stay over many nights"
"Maryy'
''Many nightsl What do you care?
What do you want with a wife whose
standard Of living Is what you say
mime is? We've been unhappy to-
gether for months. You misinterpret
Everything / say Il do. You neither
! 9dmire nor trust me-"
81 neither Sdmire nor trust you?
Mary, wait moment"
"Let go Of my wristI Why should
you hold me"
MARY, listen"
| 81 have listened too long. / have
learned what a man means when he
says to woman, I love your He
means: 4 wish to possess you body
and soul. / wish you to be mine, to
have no power to move Independently
Of my will Because woman is
wife is that any reason why she
should have no right to exercise her
own Judgment? Must she be coerced
| by the will Of her husband alWays-aI-
ways? Then the meaning Of wifehood
is slavery. You have confessed it The.
bane of your existence Is that / have
money, which gives me liberty. You
cannot withhold it from me and SO
force me to obedience to your will.
That is the cause Of your complaint
"Mary, stop-listen to me-" 1
j, ''No. have begun now. / Will fin
ish. Have ever tried to force you
into the companionship of my cousin
and her friends, whom you despisef
Has it ever occurred to you that some
Of your friends might be quite as OBJ
jectionable to me? Don't look at me
like that, Basil. can be Just II am
a woman. l, am just to You. know
you cared for me once, and Il was not
my money that attracted you either"
'No, by heaven. Mary, it,
swat moment. You know you did
care for me-
MARY, p
"Wait, Basil-you cared for some
thing in me that was not like you
There were any number of women Of |
your own set you might have had for
the asking. but you must choose me,
and for something they were not and T
never could be to you. and then, Basil
take your arm away-you must needs
proceed to make me over, to cast me in
their mold as rapidly as possible Now
you'll would not have changed you for
the world. learned to love you as
you are, and / wanted you to stay so.
That is. love. But you, after you had
succeeded in making me all over and
had cut me of from the gayety of my
past life, would find you had spoiled
your plaything."
"Oh, throw that all aside. l wouldn't
make you over. Mary. tell you-F'-*
''And l tell you have heard those
protestations before. and used to be-
lieve them. Now you must let me
co.
Believe them? What did you be-
lever
"You needn't be so bitter. cannot
believe in a love that is in no sense
just"
Mary, not just?"
"No! It isn't just that you should
ask Of me that which you would not
for q momtat yield l respect your in
dividuality, l trust love you, but
you 5'>.
"Mary. Mary, it is enough''-
mo. Basil, you have stopped my
mouth with kisses before. You shall
not do it this time. will make you
see Why ~
81 do see. Mary. and will stop your
-"why went to my cousins last
week and Why
''Why you are going next week If you
wish to, dear, and.
''But / don't wish to-that is, unless
you say shan't-" ,
"But l say you shallY'
'"Then will not"
"And / say you shall go of and leave :
ne morose and sullen here all by my
'elf. as you threatened and as l de-
serve. and shall go this minute"
"And you know can't get away
When you hold me like this-stop, Basil U
shall not let you kiss me again not
Until you tell me you will trust me al. j
Ways, everywhere, anywherer' 2
always, love. everywhere, any :
where. Now whatT'
Nov you may
Thank you. / Will whether you will :
r not. n' j
'"Are you coming home to dinnerT' ,
"Are your Yes" o