The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-22
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Gradpaily he came 5to understand
that her determination not to marry
him was influenced by something
stronger than a mere personal shrink
ing from false marriage. She would.
moi marry because she would not take
4 selfish happiness at the expense of
her rlothef and those that depended
ION her; but more than thai, and deep
er, she would not by Q rash promise
add one more to the marriages that
end IN vain regret or divorce.
Gradually, to, he came to under.
stand more fully what she had meant
by saving that Il they were made for
each other they would find,it out with
out promises and II not, It were a
thousand times better they should
drift apart And as he came to under.i
stand, am element OF reverence min.
gled With his love for her, deepening
and intensifyihg 1T.
He himself would not have ques-
toned. He would gladly have mar
RED Tcshimii Il would moi: have been
h test but a eonstimmati ton. But that
they were not 70 marry did not trou;:
Bile him. Why should he ask more Of.
love that was proving e,fllfllment
81 an the longing of his boyhood and
yoptfig was Transforming him.
mind bodysana soul. His frame,
which had been tall, spare, and loosely,
bill began1to Ill; and settle into
streh gun his step became firm and
chick; ii head took firmer poisel
ahoye the square shoulders; even his
eyes shared in the metamorphosis-
they lost their dreamy, pleading look
ana became alert, laughing, and full
III happiness and a strange power that
seemed no longer to ask, but to COM
niand help and sympathy from all
who met their glance.
Something Of this change Derrfng-
himself recognized. He knew that he
was alive, glowing in every fiber; but
eWas less analytic in his happiness
HAN la his misery; he did not see
that his Overlooking vitality commun.
lcated itself to everyone with whom
he came in contact. It was only when
sonie one spoke Of the change that he
knew that Twas being marked. He
estIlted in bis heart that no one
guessed the cause.
He was settled down and working,
Eith q yigor Of which he had not
dreamed himself capable. Everything
bent before him. He felt within him.
sel power to conquer the world
should ttstand in his way. Sometimes
he clenched his hands and stretched
his arms to their fullest to give outlet
u the play impulse that could not ex,
ghalst itself in work.
Ia his inner life, too, change, less
perGeptible, but no less real, was TAX
lng place. Sight and hearing were
opened to new beauty. Music had
become Ito him a medium Of soul
speech; and the sordid city streets,
with their overhanging clouds of
smoke started to picturesque life and
beauty. NJ
long archway with slant OF sun
shine at the farther end-an Italian
woman stealIng into the shadow, a
huge bundle on her back an, colored
kerchief about her headsFwould stir
his pulses like an old painting, The
nnslghtly process of building, with its
debris of mortar, bricks, and lath,
galned artistic value as his eyes took
ii tie grouping of the men at work
around the tnortar-bedsa4 the soft,
Fay.whlte otthe mortar, the dull red,
blOe or orange Of the shirts upon the
supple sor stclld figures Of the men,
witi tlfe play Of muscle beneath.
scmet5nes II was single figure, that
might have stepped from Ram
brandt canvas, appearing for minute
and disappearing in the shifting
crowd. Always, everywhere, there
was BEAUTY until Derring, seeing It
illy longed at timesto relieve his
oVeFchaFged senses by q loud cry-so
wcnde rful, so rpowertng had the
beauty 81 thpsWorld become. 81
UndcIbtedly much Of this quicken
"a insIsht vas due To- the thought Of
Helen. Who MAS never fora moment
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