Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-28
shock him by talking of mistresses or
something, like you were doing just
By Sinclair Lewis

shock him by talking Of mistresses o.
something, like YOU were doing just
now
"Of course the pure Samuel v
speaks of such erring ladies in his pri-
vate conversational" ="
Not when there's ladies around!
You al bet your life on that!"
$50 the impurity lies in failing to
pretend that
Now we won't. go into all that
eugenics or whatever damn fad you
choose to call 1t. AS I say first you
shock him, .and-then you become so
darn flighty that nobody can follow
you. Either o want to dance, or
you bang the piano, or else you get
moody as the devil and don't want
to talk or anything else. If you must
be temperamental, why can't you be
| that way by yourself?" =
my dear man, there's nothing I'd,
like better than to be by myself occa-
sionally! To have a room OF my, own!
I suppose you expect me to sit here
and dream ielicately and satisfy my
.temperamentalityhsw while you wander
over your face, arid shout, Seen my
brown pants ?h"i
HUH" He did not sound Impress
ed. He made no answer. He turned
out sof bed, his feet making one solid
! thud on the floor. He marched from
the ROOM. a grotesque figure In baggy
union-pajamaS. She heard him draw
ing a drink Of water at the bathroom
tap. She was furious at the con-
t~emptuousness Of his exit. She snug
gAd down in bed, and looked away.
from him as he returned. He ignored
her. AS he flumped into bed he
yawned, n casually stated:
We'll, you'll have plenty of privacy
when we bsild a new house"
~When!"
oh, iii build it all right, don't you
fret! But Of course I don't expect
any credit for it,"
Now it was she who grunted "Huh!'"
and ignored him. and felt independ-
ent and masterful as she shot up out
of bed, turned her back or him, fisiied
aAlone and Petrified chocolate, out of
her glove-box In the top right-hand
drawer of the bureau,ggnawed at 1t,
found that it had c%ocoanut filling,
said "Damn!" wished that she had
not said It.. SO hat she might be su-
pert6r to his colloquialism, and hurled
the chocolate into the wastebasket,
where 1t made an evil and hooking
CATER among the debris Of torn linen
collars and toothpaste box. Then, In
great dignity and standardization,
she returned to bed.
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on, embroidering his assertion that
he didn't expect any credit" She
was rejecting that he was q rustic,
that she hated him, that she had been
insane to marry him. hat she mad
married him only because she was
tired Of work. that she must get her
long gloves cleaned, that she would
that she mustn't forget his hominy
for. breakfast. She was reused to at
~tention by his storming:
I'm q fool to think about new
house. BY the time I get. It built
you'll probably have succeeded in your
plan to get me completely in Dutch
with every friend and every patient
She sat up with a bounce. She
said ,coIdly, Thank you very much
for revealing your real opinion OF me.
II that's the way you feel. II I'm such
a hihdrance to you, ! can't stay under
this roof another minute. And I am
perfectly well able to earn my own
living. I will go al once, and you
may get q divorce at your pleasure!
i What you want IL a nice sweet COW
OF a woman who will enjoy having
your dear friends talk about the
weather and spit on the fioor!ppe
Tut! Don't be a fool!n
"You will very soon find out wheth-
er I'm q fool or not!. / mean It'll Do
you think I'd stay here one second
after I found Out .that~1 YVES injuring
you? At least I have enough sense
Of justice not to do tllaA"
"Please stop flying OF at tanEents,
/ Carrie. This
"Tangentsf Tansents! Let me tell
Il yOur-"
-im.t q theater.party; It's q
serious effort to have 10 get together
on fundamentals. We've both been
cranky, and said q lot OF things we
didn't mean. I wish We were % scou-
Pile o. bloomin' poets and Just talked
about roses and noonshine, but we're
human. All right. Let's cut out lab
bling At each other Let's admit We
both do fool things. eco here: You
know you feel superior to folka.
You're not ~ had a. / say. but you're
not Al good ~ YOU s4y---not ~ a
long stfOtf What.s the reason you're
70 SUPERIOR Why can't you take
folks Is they Arsf"
Her preparations for ,stalkinx OUT
of the Dolls fiouse NSre noe ySe ~.
4 ibis. she unused:
II think perhaps TN my chiidhopd:s
She halted. when she went On her
voice had an artificial sound, her
words the bookish quality Of emotion