The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-12

because she had no temptation to ha
otherwise, To her, as a married won
an, 1t seemed rather bad form To have ::
3 lover. ltwas not; dignifed yon had
Il only she cared for any Of those men
who certainly g cared Tor her, no NOR
al code swould have stood In the way OF
net s5 doing what she waited. But she
did e NOT want; and she wondered wheth-
er the Failure to want was strength or
The Industrial sale went of with the
success that always attended any
scheme that she took up, and an hour
after she had opened it most Of the
stalls were nearly empty, tho the. prices
charged and paid for the objects sold
were er Of p, the most fancy order. She her.
sell had. after she had made thesopens
Ing speech, sold stsckings, nothing but
Stooklngs, and all male. Lnndon, it apr
reared, had been In want of stoekinps
They had been frigh tffIly expensive,
5Hnt this sense of her oWn cheapness la
making: them SO WAS eounteractea BY
the knowledge, of the good cause. Irish
peasants had made. them, and she will
1nglY lent her position and her place ia
order that Irish peasants might reap
tRe benefits OF what was adventitiously
hers She was sorry for people who
pad hada te i've like that; she willingly gave
s le her energY, even her sense Of
). g. h,eap9nesss :, to. help the1slz But be-
tore. her stall was empty she had seen
somebody ia the croWd whom es she re s.
#1nazed tho she had not seen. him for So
long. He was neither bald nor stout.
ne was as she remembered him. And
again the distant lightning hiekered on
the horizon. So =.
Apparently, tho he had only arrived
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bad more than two or three friends
here, and for. half an hour after She
had seen him first he was occupied with
hand shakes and recognition speeches..
Then, after her stall, which had been
besieged by buyers, was bare, he passed
and caught her eye.
All, Lady Fhurso, he said, in the
accurate foreign speech which she
fonnd now that she remembered SO
well, 3sa thousand greetings. I tried
to get near your stall, but it was i'm
possible And one never wastes time
n attempting the impossible. But now
You have nothing that [ can buy; sol,
as a purchaser, am impossible, too!''ss
She tried to say something natural:
and since the attempt to- say something
natural failed, she was natural without
trying. -.
Yes, here I am. >, she said, but /
nave sold everything. You are too
1at0.
II was too early once, y he said
She, who was generally SO ant of
speech, SO quick to take up point or
drep it for another, so as to avoid any
pause, which she, always said was an
1nsult to the person You were talking
to. as well as dismal comment on the
quality of your own intelligence, let a
perceptlble pause ensue. For as she
stood there, in one moment twelve years
had been wiped out Of her life, some
thrill, some nameless bitter-sBeet agi-
tation, again Like. the distant lightning
fickered thru her. She was No stran.
ger to that feeling; she had felt 81
before. But for the moment-infni-
tesimal in duration-iitt tied her tongue:
1T was. Like some tune that we heard
in childhood, and suddenly hear again,
so that we must pause and say to our.
selves, 6 All, what IS thatg''
Then she recovered herself partly.
That is the diplomatist' s. duty. Is
it not,' she said, always to- be
little earlier than other people ~
She pulled herself together again.
determining on her attitude toward him.
And your. excellency is coming to
cur dance tonight, are you nota she
A faint smile quivered for a moment
dark eyes, a
Eyes, my LADY," he said.