Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-15
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Mrs. Bellamy bruce. Rather mouth
full. that"
rs that why you make face over it:'
Didn't expect me 70 relish 1t, did you.
cinda:''
I'm afraid 1 wasn't thinking of you
at all, Dobbin, when | took it,
Meaning, If you had been, you light
have thought twice before taking
mo fear. l was too madly in love
with Bal"
VAS"
'Dobhin."
"Sorry-didn't mean to be imperti-
nent. I only-well. naturally. l wanted
to know whether or rof you matrimon-
ial incubation had TAKEN
II think one may safely say it has.
I've grown so old and wise In marriage,
it really seems funny to remember
was ever an innocent"
"It's seemed long time to me- Gnda
FIVE years since these eyes were last
made glad by the sight Of you.
LAT least. time hasn't impaired your
knack Of pretty speeches.
Nor your power to inspire them
I'm not so sure. To myself | seem
ever so much older" Lucinda pruce
anxiety feigned or real puckering the
delicately penciied brows. Doesn't 1t
show at all, Dobbin. the ruthless march
of advancing years Z"
The man narrowed critically his eyes
and withheld his verdict as il IN doubt.
but a corner of his mouth was twitchtng.
''Yon are 1oveller today than ever, love-
Tier even than tn. memories OF you that
have qulckened by dreams
Truly. Dobh.n. you've lost nothing Of
your ancient e1oquence. That last speech
quite carried ME hack across the bridge
Of time to the days when, more than
once you al but talked me of my feet
and into your arms.
pity I ever stopped talking"
How direct and persistent you are.
It's only fair 70 tell you. the traditions
Of our kind TO the contrary notwfth-
standing, I'm still in love with my hus-
band
For a moment Richard Daubeney was
silent staring at his plate. Then be
reused with a light hearted shrug and
smile.
Its like you, Dobbin. to start making
love to me all over again. precisely as If
my being married meant nothing. n the
frst minutes OF our first meeting in i've
years. without offering to tell me d
single thing about yourself.
Nothing much to tell, Everybody
knows. when you engaged yourself to
marry bruce | rode Off TO the wars.
I'VE heard you'd later taken up ranch
ing in the Argentine. aud made tidy
fortune
Il didn't d. badly. that's fact. But
what is a man profi.ed if he shall gain
the whole world and lose his OVID soul 2
as one 70 understand you lost your
soul in the Argentine? 1t sounds so
amusingly immoral"
CT realized down there my soul was
In a fair way TO prove total loss. So
sold out and shipped for home
Hoping TO find me unhappy enough
with Bel"
That's unworthy Of ycu. Cnda- No:
simply to be In the same world with
you
After little Mrs Bellamy bruce said
severely: "Dobbin. II you keep on that
tack, yor will make me cross with you.
How does New York look I" an exile
of long standingf Mueh ehangRd:@
"Oh, don't know Skirts and morals
a hit higher Jazz little more so. pro
bibi.ion Just what one expected. society
even more loosely constituted-a vast in
hnx of new people. I don't know half
these pc, pie. Astonishing lot Of pretty
girls seem to have sprung up since my
time Who's, the raving beauty on Bill
Sadley's right?'
"Amelie Severn. Amelie Cleves that
was before she married. Surely you
remember her"