The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-20
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nod criminal expression of his
10 ate and drank hugely-and
.aly had manners it would have
', -ssarded in me had | made as
noise as he, or lifted such guam
Al a time into my mouth. But
n this noisy gluttony he man
,omebow to maintain that hang.
.,r-like a thief who has gone
IN the house and, on his way
H. naused at the pantry, with the
i 4 nlunder beside him, to gorge
&slf.
'oted at Anita several times, each
! With a carefully-framed remark
each time | found her gaze on
and could say nothing, could
look away In a sort Of panic. Her
we're strangely variable. / have
them of gray, SO pale that it
I,lmost silver---like the steely light
\ snow.line at the edge of the
Iou again, and they were so that
|Jiug they shone with the deepest,
|st blue, and made one think, as
lacked at her, of a fresh violet
n in a block of clear ice.
IN behind her in the box at the
&e. During the first and second
missions several men dropped in
keak to her mother and her--fel-
who didn't ever come down town,
! could tell they knew who / was
ke way they ignored me. 1t exas-
led me to a pitch of fury, that
insolent air of theirs--a jerky
.st me without so much as a
NJ and no notice of me when they
: leaving my box beyond a faint,
fcilious smile as they passed with
straight ahead. | knew what 1t
It. what they were thinking-that
Bucket-shop King" as the news
Is had dubbed me, was trying TO
old Ellersly's necessities as a
by and "break into society"
the curtain went down for the
intermission, two young men APP
b; did not get up as l had be-
but stuck to my seat had
led that point at which courtesy
become cowardice.
ey craned and strained at her
me and over me, presently gave
pd retired, Disgusting their anger
lntempt for the bad manners of a
der But that disturbed me not a
the more as | was delighting in
psoling discovery. Listening and
ping as she talked with these
men, whom she evidently knew
noted that she was distant and
politely friendly in manner habit
that while the ice might thicken
fe, II was there always. | knew
d about women to know that, If
(oman who can thaw only for one
Is the most diff cult, she is also
post constant. "Once she thaws
mel" said to myself.
zen the young men had gone, |
forward until my head was
70 hers, to her hair-fine. soft,
fant electric hair. Like the in
Fed fool that | was, l tore out all
seon-holes of my brain in search
Aethlng to say to her, something
you'd start her to thinking well
She must have felt my breath
ler neck, for she moved away
v and 1t seemed to me a SILVER
passed over that wonderful
SKIN of hers.
ew back and involuntarily said,
PARDON" glanced at her mother
was my turn to shudder. | can't
" give an accurate impression
stony, mercenary, mean face.
IRE looks that paint upon the
countenance the whole of a
hash of lightning paints upon
'aeShess OF the night miles on
VI landscape. The look of Mrs.
s-stern disapproval at her
III stern command that she be
uul' that she unbend-showed
old woman's soul.
Ou wish it, | said. on impulse,
= Eilersly in a low voice, 81
e'eF try to see you again"
Fuu leel rather than see the
suddenly beating in her skin,
IT. was in her voice a nervous
H. IKE fright as she answered:
we mamma and l shall be glad
.Uu Whenever you come"
~" | persisted.
she said, after a brief hest
a. | persisted.
sailed-'the faintest change in
.nect curve of her lips. You
r. persistent, aren't your"
In answered. That is why |
lIa ~ays got whatever | wanted.
'|ire It," said she.
you don't" l replied. you
vulgar and you think am
:OS because have that quality
some others"
IN, ~ not contradict me.
]" ! am vulgar-from your
sas | went on. II have pur-
4 I F PASSIONS, And | pursue
~, hor Instance. you"
cue said TRANQUILITY.
! repeated. 81 made I'M my
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