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.Her own room held a large bed and was a convenient a maiden lady of thirty-five, she found bouleversé by the im-room with a pretty arrangement of furniture and leading to a minence of an experiment one being tried, she knew, atnicely-fitted bathroom.But she was not prepared to rent all times on all sides of her, in all corners of the earth, butrooms and she had long before determined that such mar- one, none the less, so remote and foreign to her conscious-riages as the couple before her contemplated were unwise ness that she felt as might a chrysalis within a pricked co-and inevitably unsuccessful.Moreover, she lived alone and coon.was considered by her relatives very selfish and there was While she remade the large bed in her room with freshno reason on earth for putting herself to the inconvenience of sheets and pillow-slips she found herself peculiarly annoyed.148 May, 1918 THE INTERNATIONAL 149The feeling was so sharp and definite that she began to ana- have breakfast with the friend who was our witness! lyze it, and found as she dwelt upon it that the real annoy- Then the woman, who all day had been reluctantly dwell-ance came from her inability to regard the bed without more ing on their case, whose very foundations of peace and se-interest than she felt as she made it every day for herself.renity had been undermined by their need and appeal, whoseShe wanted merely to make the bed and get to the next vitals, as it were, had been disturbed astonishingly becausesmall change she contemplated for her lodgers comfort.In- of them, retired to her small room with its discomfortable cotstead, she found her attention focused upon the pillows and and said to herself, I shall have to have my hot bath in theher thoughts upon the way she had tucked in the sheet.The morning when they have gone! Wherein lay the profoundestgirl Ethel, just as she left the house, had opened her suit- tragedy of her rather tragic life.case to get out a clean handkerchief, and from the edge peeped After a night of sleeplessness caused partly by the unfa-a stretch of soft white nainsook threaded with a pale blue miliar bed and partly by thoughts so unfamiliar as to be ex-ribbon.citing, she came in the dawn to a determination, influencedThe woman of the house saw it and looked at it and thought most strongly by a peculiar feeling that for the results sheabout it.She felt inclined to exercise her prerogative as host- wished she had no time to lose.A definite change had takeness by taking the nightgown out and folding it across the place in her immobile mind.As clearly as she had previ-pillow.But she would not do so, for her desire annoyed her ously seen it her duty and wisdom to follow the line of mostand she thought it must be repressed.resistance she now saw it an essential matter to submit pli-There was no curiosity in her reflections and there was no antly and yield herself to the obvious designs of Life.morbidity.Thoughts danced in her mind a pleasing little whirl In the tremendous elation of her discovery she forgot theand fancies made intricate little patterns that wore lashes interest the boy and girl had for her and bade them good-byetipped with gold and were caressed by a man s strong hand.with slight attention.When she went to the room she wasBut the fact that thoughts and fancies of so alien a type had rather startled to find two dollar pieces lying on the dresser.place at all in her she found disturbing.In the obsession of her self-interest she had not thought ofBecause she had determined long before to be immune mentioning the fact that they were welcome to the room as afrom love! woman s wedding gift! And because her lips were set andWhen she came to the dresser, a broad affair boasting a her eyes unsmiling the pair had taken her to be quite ordi-splendid piece of glass, she found herself choosing instinc- nary in the matter of payment and had left what they thoughttively a fresh, spring-like scarf to replace the plain white adequate.mat she herself had used.The material was dotted with purple She changed the sheets and took the bow of mauve ribbonviolets and she sought a broad mauve ribbon to loop the cur- from the curtain.She swept out the small room since shetains at the window.And the room looked prettier than she noticed it was dusty and generally cleaned up the house ahad ever made it look before.But her thoughts ran riot all little more than usual.Then the gas heater was lighted andthe afternoon.She discovered that sensation follows upon she prepared for that morning bath she promised herself over-suggestion, a fact she had forgotten if she ever knew it in the night.past.In spite of solid common-sense and practical analysis And all the while her mind was furiously active and intentof her own previous condition of security, the lure of the past upon the letter she proposed to write.drew her into dreamy contemplation, and she saw in herself Before she went to the bathroom she carefully locked thethe potential bride.back door.It was a long time since she had taken a daylightThe suggestion, made to her immunity, broke it down and bath and there seemed to her mind something a little strange,she not only saw but felt the potential rosy warmth of love as a little immodest about the proceeding.it might have been allowed to surround her womanhood.Daylight poured in at all the windows.She felt queer, un-Fame, the will o the wisp, for which she had relinquished dressing in her room with the blinds up, lest anyone shouldwhat she thought a mild and foolish temptation to matrimony, be able to see through the thick curtains.In the bathroom aseemed something inexcusably futile and flickering compared fog of steam rose and made her privacy a little more certain,with the protection of a man s curved fingers, and in response but she locked the door and her actions were distinctly fur-to the extraordinary expansion of her sympathies she began tive.to wonder if she could not arrange for the young couple to Suppose someone comes to the door! she said to herself.have the house to themselves if they came in early [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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.Her own room held a large bed and was a convenient a maiden lady of thirty-five, she found bouleversé by the im-room with a pretty arrangement of furniture and leading to a minence of an experiment one being tried, she knew, atnicely-fitted bathroom.But she was not prepared to rent all times on all sides of her, in all corners of the earth, butrooms and she had long before determined that such mar- one, none the less, so remote and foreign to her conscious-riages as the couple before her contemplated were unwise ness that she felt as might a chrysalis within a pricked co-and inevitably unsuccessful.Moreover, she lived alone and coon.was considered by her relatives very selfish and there was While she remade the large bed in her room with freshno reason on earth for putting herself to the inconvenience of sheets and pillow-slips she found herself peculiarly annoyed.148 May, 1918 THE INTERNATIONAL 149The feeling was so sharp and definite that she began to ana- have breakfast with the friend who was our witness! lyze it, and found as she dwelt upon it that the real annoy- Then the woman, who all day had been reluctantly dwell-ance came from her inability to regard the bed without more ing on their case, whose very foundations of peace and se-interest than she felt as she made it every day for herself.renity had been undermined by their need and appeal, whoseShe wanted merely to make the bed and get to the next vitals, as it were, had been disturbed astonishingly becausesmall change she contemplated for her lodgers comfort.In- of them, retired to her small room with its discomfortable cotstead, she found her attention focused upon the pillows and and said to herself, I shall have to have my hot bath in theher thoughts upon the way she had tucked in the sheet.The morning when they have gone! Wherein lay the profoundestgirl Ethel, just as she left the house, had opened her suit- tragedy of her rather tragic life.case to get out a clean handkerchief, and from the edge peeped After a night of sleeplessness caused partly by the unfa-a stretch of soft white nainsook threaded with a pale blue miliar bed and partly by thoughts so unfamiliar as to be ex-ribbon.citing, she came in the dawn to a determination, influencedThe woman of the house saw it and looked at it and thought most strongly by a peculiar feeling that for the results sheabout it.She felt inclined to exercise her prerogative as host- wished she had no time to lose.A definite change had takeness by taking the nightgown out and folding it across the place in her immobile mind.As clearly as she had previ-pillow.But she would not do so, for her desire annoyed her ously seen it her duty and wisdom to follow the line of mostand she thought it must be repressed.resistance she now saw it an essential matter to submit pli-There was no curiosity in her reflections and there was no antly and yield herself to the obvious designs of Life.morbidity.Thoughts danced in her mind a pleasing little whirl In the tremendous elation of her discovery she forgot theand fancies made intricate little patterns that wore lashes interest the boy and girl had for her and bade them good-byetipped with gold and were caressed by a man s strong hand.with slight attention.When she went to the room she wasBut the fact that thoughts and fancies of so alien a type had rather startled to find two dollar pieces lying on the dresser.place at all in her she found disturbing.In the obsession of her self-interest she had not thought ofBecause she had determined long before to be immune mentioning the fact that they were welcome to the room as afrom love! woman s wedding gift! And because her lips were set andWhen she came to the dresser, a broad affair boasting a her eyes unsmiling the pair had taken her to be quite ordi-splendid piece of glass, she found herself choosing instinc- nary in the matter of payment and had left what they thoughttively a fresh, spring-like scarf to replace the plain white adequate.mat she herself had used.The material was dotted with purple She changed the sheets and took the bow of mauve ribbonviolets and she sought a broad mauve ribbon to loop the cur- from the curtain.She swept out the small room since shetains at the window.And the room looked prettier than she noticed it was dusty and generally cleaned up the house ahad ever made it look before.But her thoughts ran riot all little more than usual.Then the gas heater was lighted andthe afternoon.She discovered that sensation follows upon she prepared for that morning bath she promised herself over-suggestion, a fact she had forgotten if she ever knew it in the night.past.In spite of solid common-sense and practical analysis And all the while her mind was furiously active and intentof her own previous condition of security, the lure of the past upon the letter she proposed to write.drew her into dreamy contemplation, and she saw in herself Before she went to the bathroom she carefully locked thethe potential bride.back door.It was a long time since she had taken a daylightThe suggestion, made to her immunity, broke it down and bath and there seemed to her mind something a little strange,she not only saw but felt the potential rosy warmth of love as a little immodest about the proceeding.it might have been allowed to surround her womanhood.Daylight poured in at all the windows.She felt queer, un-Fame, the will o the wisp, for which she had relinquished dressing in her room with the blinds up, lest anyone shouldwhat she thought a mild and foolish temptation to matrimony, be able to see through the thick curtains.In the bathroom aseemed something inexcusably futile and flickering compared fog of steam rose and made her privacy a little more certain,with the protection of a man s curved fingers, and in response but she locked the door and her actions were distinctly fur-to the extraordinary expansion of her sympathies she began tive.to wonder if she could not arrange for the young couple to Suppose someone comes to the door! she said to herself.have the house to themselves if they came in early [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]