Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-06-22

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Eliot had been married seven years
and he was bored not bored with
The temporary languor that came over
hirp OF a Sunday afternoon when he
wished for enough energy TO go and
play golf-but actively bored so that
every action OF his life ms far as he
could see was ugly and lusterless. And
yet he loved his wife and his two good
little girls. Mary was pretty, good. de-
voted. ard-though his mind hesItated
little over the last step-intelllgent
Her mind was as alert and vigorous
and quick to understand his thoughts
as II had been when. the autumn after
he left college, he had married her.
II was matrimony. he told himself
not Mary. that bored him; but he was
sware that the line was a fine one.
Nevertheless he had been careful 10
draw II. when. the evening before. Sam
Francis and he had been discussing
the advantages and disadvantages of
the married state. Sam was a bachelor.
lie had come over TO dine, and after
dinner the two friends had gone TO a
moving picture. Mary was busy put
ting the children TO bed. The picture.
as II happened. dealt with the life of
young married couple; and though
all the walls were OF rough plaster. all |
the doorways were arches. and all the |
trees eucalyptus. breakfasts and babies |
and bills seemed TO be much the same
on one coast as on the other.
It's dull Picture" said Sam the
bachelor lightly.
TITS dull subject" said Eliot. the
married man. bitterly.
This opened the door to discussion
none the less frank and intimate be-
cause Il was carried on In generalities.
Eliot began by quoting that terrible
sentence from Mlddlemarch: IL never
loved anyone well enough to put my
head Into moose for them-it is A
moose you know" Sam agreed. but
wondered whether every man as he
grew Older tSam was twenty-slx) did
not want hope OF his own, and al
this point an Irresistible desire for
seif-expression came over Eliot. He
remembered how he had once been
iree-free not for evil things but for
adventures that were often nothing
more than intellectual---free 10 miss n
dozen suburban trains. II he wanted !
70 finish book at the club--free TO 20
% the theater without asking himself
whether the money would not have
'een better spent on the children's
'hoes-free 10 wander an night on the a
ridges. thinking OF some futile para a
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