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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: A Woman of Genius - -Author: Mary Austin - -Release Date: January 17, 2012 [EBook #38592] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WOMAN OF GENIUS *** - - - - -Produced by David Garcia, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from scanned images of public domain -material from the Google Print project.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 38592 ***</div> <h1>A Woman of Genius</h1> @@ -222,35 +177,35 @@ material from the Google Print project.) "Christ in Italy," etc., etc.</i></p> -<p class="center">GARDEN CITY NEW YORK<br /> -DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY<br /> +<p class="center">GARDEN CITY NEW YORK<br > +DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY<br > 1912</p> -<p class="center"><i>Copyright, 1912, by</i><br /> +<p class="center"><i>Copyright, 1912, by</i><br > <span class="smcap">Doubleday, Page & Co.</span></p> <p class="center"><i>All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian</i></p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > -<p class="center">TO<br /> -LOU HENRY HOOVER<br /> -AND SOME PLEASANT MEMORIES<br /> -OF<br /> -THE RED HOUSE IN HORNTON<br /> +<p class="center">TO<br > +LOU HENRY HOOVER<br > +AND SOME PLEASANT MEMORIES<br > +OF<br > +THE RED HOUSE IN HORNTON<br > STREET</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>BOOK I</h2> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER I</h2> @@ -312,7 +267,7 @@ Acting and the daughter of a County Clerk, with the social ideal of Taylorville, Ohianna, for the villain. It is a drama in which none of the characters played the parts they were cast for, and invariably spoke from the wrong cues, which nevertheless proceeded to a successful -dénouement. But if you are looking for anything ordinarily called plot, +dénouement. But if you are looking for anything ordinarily called plot, you will be disappointed. Plot is distinctly the province of fiction, though I've a notion there is a sort of order in my story, if one could look at it from the vantage of the gods, but I have never rightly made @@ -384,7 +339,7 @@ without entertainment.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER II</h2> @@ -402,7 +357,7 @@ official maps as avenues, taking their names from the trees with which they were falsely declared to be planted, though I do not recall that they were ever spoken of by these names except by the leading county paper which had its office in one corner of the square over the -Coöperative store, was Republican in politics, and stood for Progress.</p> +Coöperative store, was Republican in politics, and stood for Progress.</p> <p>The square was planted with maples; a hitching rack ran quite around it and was, in the number and character of the vehicles attached to it, a @@ -673,7 +628,7 @@ you understand ... the release, the comforting ... it wasn't there ... -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER III</h2> @@ -775,7 +730,7 @@ was expected to use on any occasion; and finally how we all took hands in a wild dance around the fire and over it, crying,</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Snockerty, Snockerty, Snockerty!"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Snockerty, Snockerty, Snockerty!"<br ></span> </div></div> <p>in a sort of savage singsong.</p> @@ -934,7 +889,7 @@ inheres in dreams. And before the shine had gone off I lost him.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER IV</h2> @@ -1174,7 +1129,7 @@ in bed in our nightgowns and tried on the hats while Pauline walked about to get the effect from both sides, and refrained, in respect to the occasion, from offering any criticism.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>It was the evening after the funeral and everybody had gone away but one good neighbour. The room had been set in order while we were away at the @@ -1197,7 +1152,7 @@ pain.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER V</h2> @@ -1513,7 +1468,7 @@ converted.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER VI</h2> @@ -1729,8 +1684,8 @@ rose border and jeered back at us.</p> Tommy Bettersworth makin' eyes." He executed a jig to the tune of</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Olive's mad and I am glad.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And I know what'll please her——"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Olive's mad and I am glad.<br ></span> +<span class="i0">And I know what'll please her——"<br ></span> </div></div> <p>At this juncture the wrist and hand of Tommy Bettersworth appeared over @@ -1852,7 +1807,7 @@ church with a young man. I was a young lady.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER VII</h2> @@ -1998,7 +1953,7 @@ fiction of Forester's growing up to take my father's place with her. They had achieved by the time Forester was twenty, what passed for perfect confidence between them, though it was at the cost of Forester's living shallowly or not at all in the courts of boyhood which -my mother was unable to reënter, and her voluntary withdrawal from +my mother was unable to reënter, and her voluntary withdrawal from varieties of experience from which his youth prevented him. My mother always thought it was made up to her in affection; what came out of it for Forester is still on the knees of the gods.</p> @@ -2012,7 +1967,7 @@ of a profession for him, seemed to have been quashed beforehand by the general notion of an immediate salary as the means to that end. I do not recall a voice lifted on behalf of a life of his own. He had worked up from driving the delivery wagon in vacations to being dry goods clerk at -the Coöperative, where his affability and easy familiarity with the +the Coöperative, where his affability and easy familiarity with the requirements of women, made him immensely popular. Everybody liked to trade with Forester because he took such pains in matching things, and he was such a good boy to his mother. He paid the largest portion of his @@ -2109,7 +2064,7 @@ at this happy incident.</p> <p>There was nothing in me then—there is nothing now—which advised me of being inappropriately the object of such an address, or my replying to -it as gallantly as the junior clerk of the Coöperative. To do Forester +it as gallantly as the junior clerk of the Coöperative. To do Forester justice, he came out squarely on the question of my being entitled to the money if he was, but he contrived backhandedly to convey his sense of my obtuseness in not deferring sentimentally to a male ascendancy @@ -2216,7 +2171,7 @@ devices for dodging the destiny of women.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER VIII</h2> @@ -2278,7 +2233,7 @@ spooned.</p> <p>I think now there was some excuse for him; he had been wrenched very early by his affections from the normal outbreaks of adolescence; he had never to my knowledge been "out with the boys." Unless he got it in the -business of junior clerk at the Coöperative, he could hardly be said to +business of junior clerk at the Coöperative, he could hardly be said to have a male life at all; he was being shaped to a man's performance at the expense of his mannishness. But against his philandering rose up, not only the fastidiousness of girlhood, but some latent sense of @@ -2439,8 +2394,8 @@ the natural impetus of the play, in the faint old wagon tracks, and had got as far as</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">—Flowers that affrighted she let fall<br /></span> -<span class="i0">From Dis's wagon!—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">—Flowers that affrighted she let fall<br ></span> +<span class="i0">From Dis's wagon!—<br ></span> </div></div> <p>when I was startled by the clapping of hands, and looked up to see a @@ -2561,7 +2516,7 @@ of laughter.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER IX</h2> @@ -2858,12 +2813,12 @@ kisses, if I don't mind it."</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>BOOK II</h2> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER I</h2> @@ -3042,7 +2997,7 @@ I was married, after Belle Endsleigh had run away from home with a commercial traveller who disappointed the moral instance by making her a very good husband afterward, my brother found himself, as regards the young people's world, in a situation of uneasy detachment. And there was -no doubt that the Coöperative, where he had been seven years, bored him +no doubt that the Coöperative, where he had been seven years, bored him excessively. It was then he conceived the idea of reinstating himself in the atmosphere of importance by setting himself up in business.</p> @@ -3147,7 +3102,7 @@ know ... I never knew myself."</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER II</h2> @@ -3433,7 +3388,7 @@ me.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER III</h2> @@ -3471,7 +3426,7 @@ at what price. My expressed interest in the teakettle, led at once to the particular department store where I saw rows of them shining in the ticketed inaccessibility of seven dollars and ninety-eight cents. From point to point of such eminent practicability I was pricked to think of -preëmpting some of these new phases of suitability for myself, finding +preëmpting some of these new phases of suitability for myself, finding myself debarred by the flatness of my purse. The effect of it was to throw me back into the benumbing sense of personal neglect with which the city had burst upon me. From the first, as I began to go about still @@ -3516,7 +3471,7 @@ my bringing up; and the piece, a broad comedy of Henry's selection, made no particular impression on me other than the singular one of having known a great deal about it before. My criticism of the acting brought Pauline around with a swing from the City Cousin attitude in which she -had initiated the experience for me, to one æsthetically sympathetic.</p> +had initiated the experience for me, to one æsthetically sympathetic.</p> <p>"The things men choose, my dear—and to anybody who has been saturated in Shakespeare as you have! You really must see Modjeska; it will be an @@ -3544,7 +3499,7 @@ Pauline's, and if as early as that he had devised any system of paying himself off for his complicity in her ideals, I didn't discover it.</p> <p>I saw Modjeska with Henry, in "Romeo and Juliet," and afterward stole -away to a matinée by myself and saw her as Rosalind. I do not know now +away to a matinée by myself and saw her as Rosalind. I do not know now if she was the great artist she seemed, it is so long since I have seen her, but she sufficed. I had no words in which to express my extraordinary sense of possession in her, the profound, excluding @@ -3705,7 +3660,7 @@ itself, I went down to him by Monday's train.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER IV</h2> @@ -3996,7 +3951,7 @@ brass teakettle.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER V</h2> @@ -4111,7 +4066,7 @@ them sort of comicalities as much as it's helped."</p> general attention had not been distracted just then by my husband, an hour before his time, coming through the front gate and up the walk. He had evidently forgotten my tea party, for he came straight to me, and -backed away precipitately through the portières as soon as he saw the +backed away precipitately through the portières as soon as he saw the assembled ladies sitting about the wall. It was not that which disturbed us; any Higgleston male would have done the same, but it was plain in the brief glimpse we had of him that he looked white and stricken. A @@ -4392,7 +4347,7 @@ the desire of it ravened in me like a flame.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER VI</h2> @@ -4794,12 +4749,12 @@ have happened better.</p> <p>I read it hastily:</p> -<blockquote><p>Mother had a stroke. Come at once.<br /> +<blockquote><p>Mother had a stroke. Come at once.<br > Signed: <span class="smcap">Forester</span>.</p></blockquote> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER VII</h2> @@ -5175,7 +5130,7 @@ deprived her of articulateness.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER VIII</h2> @@ -5263,7 +5218,7 @@ above the sum of such capacity in man, is to be excised as a superfluous growth, a monstrosity. Does anybody remember what the woman's world was like in small towns before the days of woman's clubs? There was a world of cooking and making over; there was a world of church-going and -missionary societies and ministerial coöperation, half grudged and half +missionary societies and ministerial coöperation, half grudged and half assumed as a virtue which, since it was the only thing that lay outside themselves, was not without extenuation. And there was another world which underlay all this, coloured and occasioned it, sicklied over with @@ -5520,7 +5475,7 @@ a view that was likely to have a deterrent effect upon me.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER IX</h2> @@ -5830,7 +5785,7 @@ and bewilderment of what had happened to us.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER X</h2> @@ -6175,7 +6130,7 @@ so he started up almost strongly.</p> <p>"Then I will sleep too," and in a little while it was so.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>The Odd Fellows took charge of my husband's funeral, his body was moved from the Rathbones', to their hall and did not go back again to the @@ -6249,18 +6204,18 @@ child to her.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>BOOK III</h2> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER I</h2> <p>I have to take up my story again about eighteen months later at the point of my going out to Suburbia to ask Gerald McDermott for a part in -his new play, which was being rehearsed with Sarah in the <i>rôle</i> of +his new play, which was being rehearsed with Sarah in the <i>rôle</i> of <i>Bettina</i>. But before that there had been some rather mortifying experiences to teach me that though I was done with Higgleston, it was, to a certainty, not done with me. In any case I suppose the shock of my @@ -6377,7 +6332,7 @@ myself into believing was the only real and appreciable life.</p> <p>At the time of which I write it was a great comfort to me to get away from my own dreary professionalism, to the nursery at Evanston, or to -add my small flourish to the <i>scene à faire</i> of Henry's homecoming, made +add my small flourish to the <i>scene à faire</i> of Henry's homecoming, made every day to seem the one event for which the household waited, from which, indeed, it took its excuse for being. For all of this was so well in line with what Henry, who with the amplification of his income had @@ -6396,7 +6351,7 @@ husband.</p> undertaken to state to Pauline the nature of the help I required and my title to it. I had gone out to dinner and found her putting on a new gown, one of those garments admirably contrived between the smartness of -evening dress and the intimacy of negligée, in which Evanston ladies of +evening dress and the intimacy of negligée, in which Evanston ladies of that period were wont to receive their lords.</p> <p>"I'm needing something new myself," I said for a beginning, "and I'm @@ -6709,7 +6664,7 @@ was only Sarah's kind way of putting it.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER II</h2> @@ -7078,7 +7033,7 @@ suppose, as could be expected.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER III</h2> @@ -7108,8 +7063,8 @@ the hymn, and then after an interval Effie, who was busy about the back of the house, heard him sing again my mother's favourite hymn,</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Come, Thou fount of every blessing,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Tune my heart to sing Thy praise."<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Come, Thou fount of every blessing,<br ></span> +<span class="i0">Tune my heart to sing Thy praise."<br ></span> </div></div> <p>and as he sung she saw the tears rolling down his face. So she turned @@ -7202,7 +7157,7 @@ things were.</p> I had thought a good many times what was to become of Effie. I couldn't take her with me, of course, but I wasn't in the least prepared to see her intrigued by the popular sentiment into becoming a mere figurehead -for Forester's <i>rôle</i> of provider. "Keeping up a home" they called it in +for Forester's <i>rôle</i> of provider. "Keeping up a home" they called it in Taylorville, as though the house and furniture and the daily habit of coming back to it, were the pivotal facts of existence.</p> @@ -7217,7 +7172,7 @@ thing Taylorville expected of him. It began to seem as if I might have to make good my word about staying with my brother to let Effie free. I believe he would have accepted that without even a suspicion of what I surrendered by it. If anything, he would have seen in it only another -dramatization of his <i>rôle</i> of dutifulness. That a woman had any +dramatization of his <i>rôle</i> of dutifulness. That a woman had any preferred employment beside cushioning life for the males of her family, had not impinged on the consciousness of Taylorville.</p> @@ -7403,7 +7358,7 @@ whatever to do.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER IV</h2> @@ -7488,7 +7443,7 @@ were called studios, by means of a cot bed, an oil stove, and a few yards of art muslin. That I hadn't managed it so successfully as I hoped, was made plain to me a few days after I had moved in, by the discovery of a card tacked on the opposite door, that read, "Leon -Griffin, the Varieté." It was the same theatre at which Cecelia Brune +Griffin, the Varieté." It was the same theatre at which Cecelia Brune was playing the chief attraction in song and dance. In the glimpses I had of Mr. Griffin in the dark hall going in and out, I was aware that he gave much the same impression of unprofitable use that was associated @@ -7499,7 +7454,7 @@ engagement. Now and then some shining bubble of opportunity seemed to float toward me, to dissolve in thin air as soon as I put my hand out to it. One of these brought me to Cline and Erskine's waiting room on the day that Cecelia Brune elected to register her complaint against what -she considered a slight of her turn at the Varieté. She flounced about +she considered a slight of her turn at the Varieté. She flounced about more than a little, not to let the rest of us escape the inference that she was not used to being kept waiting. When she had hooked and unhooked her handsome furs for the fourth time, she introduced me to Leon @@ -7743,7 +7698,7 @@ me. He had come up unsuspected in the soft shuffle and turned in with me.</p> <p>By the light that filtered through the weather-fogged transom I saw that -he was Griffin of the Varieté. Now as I fumbled blindly at the latch he +he was Griffin of the Varieté. Now as I fumbled blindly at the latch he came close to me.</p> <p>"Beg pardon!" He had put out his hand over mine and turned the key for @@ -7758,7 +7713,7 @@ him hold it there for a moment before I went in and shut the door.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER V</h2> @@ -7784,7 +7739,7 @@ a trail of snow half across the room where the wind whips it in between the casings."</p> <p>Though he had come ostensibly to offer me a neighbourly attention, he -was plainly in need of it himself; it was his last night at the Varieté +was plainly in need of it himself; it was his last night at the Varieté and, between the storm and the depression of having nothing to turn to, he was coming down with a cold. I had him into my one easy chair and suggested tea.</p> @@ -7818,7 +7773,7 @@ register for which we were definitely charged in the rent, scarcely modified the edge of the cold. For the next two or three days we spent much of the time huddled over my stove. Snow ceased to fall on the second day, and nothing moved in our view except now and then the -surface of it was flung up by the wind, falling again fountain-Pwise +surface of it was flung up by the wind, falling again fountain-wise into the waste of the untrampled housetops that stretched from my window to the icy flat of the lake darkening under a dour horizon. Somehow, though I had never been willing to confess to my friends how poor I was, @@ -8082,7 +8037,7 @@ in!"</p> <p>I didn't want to be dragged in, rescuing Cecelia; I had myself to save and wasn't sure I could do it. It was after this talk, however, that -Griff, who still hung about the Varieté from habit, told me that Sarah +Griff, who still hung about the Varieté from habit, told me that Sarah had fallen into the way of stopping to pick up Cecelia on her way home from her own theatre. He thought it a futile performance.</p> @@ -8119,7 +8074,7 @@ make-up that she doesn't think it necessary to take it off."</p> with a painted lady, and I'm told it is quite one of the things to do."</p> <p>I let it pass rather than spoil his high mood. It was not more than -three blocks to the Varieté, and at the stage door Sarah insisted on +three blocks to the Varieté, and at the stage door Sarah insisted on getting out herself.</p> <p>"Why did you let her?" I protested to Jerry.</p> @@ -8146,7 +8101,7 @@ out back, the great revolving doors, muffled with crimson curtains, that received the guests and sorted them like a hopper, according to the degree of their resistance to the particular allurements of Reeves's. There was a sleek, satin-suited attendant who swung the leaves of the -door at just the right angle that inducted you to the public café, or to +door at just the right angle that inducted you to the public café, or to the corridor that led to private rooms, and was famed never to have made a mistake. Jerry dared us hilariously as we went up the steps, to put his discrimination to the test.</p> @@ -8158,7 +8113,7 @@ insisted.</p> must see her; I <i>must</i>."</p> <p>Her going on with Jerry would give her an opportunity to look through -the café; if Cecelia hadn't already arrived, I would be sure to see her +the café; if Cecelia hadn't already arrived, I would be sure to see her come in with the crowd that broke against the bank of palms into two streams of bright and dark, proceeding to the dressing rooms, and returning by twos and threes to be swallowed up by the hopper turning @@ -8186,16 +8141,16 @@ started after her, to be met by the leaves of the revolving door which, reversing its motion, projected Sarah and Jerry into the palm room beside me.</p> -<p>"I have been all over the café——" Sarah began.</p> +<p>"I have been all over the café——" Sarah began.</p> <p>"Didn't you meet her?"</p> -<p>"In the café? I was just telling you ..."</p> +<p>"In the café? I was just telling you ..."</p> <p>"No, no. In the corridor, just now; they went through."</p> <p>"But they couldn't," urged Sarah. "I was standing at the door of the -café with Jerry ..." The truth of the situation began to dawn on her.</p> +café with Jerry ..." The truth of the situation began to dawn on her.</p> <p>"There's such a crowd, of course you missed her." Jerry began to build up a probability by which we could sustain Sarah through the supper @@ -8203,7 +8158,7 @@ which followed. We all of us talked a great deal as people will when they are anxious not to talk of a particular thing. When we were in the dressing room again, putting on our wraps, Sarah turned on me.</p> -<p>"She wasn't in the café at all," she declared.</p> +<p>"She wasn't in the café at all," she declared.</p> <p>"I never said she was. I said she went through into the corridor." In the silence I could feel Cecelia dropping into the pit.</p> @@ -8214,7 +8169,7 @@ the silence I could feel Cecelia dropping into the pit.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER VI</h2> @@ -8461,7 +8416,7 @@ at their breasts or in their hair. We saw men hurried, overburdened with work, and there was no work for us. In our own land we were exiled from the community of labour and we sighed for it more than the meanest Siberian prisoner for home. And then suddenly communication seemed to -be reëstablished. Effie for no reason sent me half of the rent money. "I +be reëstablished. Effie for no reason sent me half of the rent money. "I don't need it here, and I think maybe I shall get more out of it by investing it in you," she wrote. She had always such a way of making the thing she did seem the choice of her soul. I bought meat and vegetables @@ -8818,7 +8773,7 @@ New York with him and put my gift on a paying basis.</p> toppling over my own resistance. I went out in the street and walked about until reminded by the gnawing in my stomach, that I had had nothing but the brewing of my twice-boiled coffee grounds for breakfast, -I turned into the first attractive café and paid out almost my last cent +I turned into the first attractive café and paid out almost my last cent for a comforting luncheon. It would have gone farther if I had bought food and cooked it at home, but I was past that. I had pinched and endured to the last pitch; I could no more. And besides the assurance of @@ -9050,12 +9005,12 @@ with another handshake, and I set my face steadily toward New York.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>BOOK IV</h2> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER I</h2> @@ -9377,7 +9332,7 @@ closed for the season I sailed for London.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER II</h2> @@ -9492,7 +9447,7 @@ peremptorily aside.</p> <p>"Come," Mr. Garrett insisted, "come out of this. I want to talk to you." There was the old imperiousness in his manner, exclusive of all other considerations. He seemed to know the house. We took a turn through the -hall came out presently at the <i>porte cochère</i> where a line of carriages +hall came out presently at the <i>porte cochère</i> where a line of carriages waited, supported by a line of skirt-coated figures like little wooden Noahs before an ark. I let him put me into a closed carriage without a word of protest. I had not taken leave of my hostess; I had not so much @@ -9621,7 +9576,7 @@ life."</p> <p>"And both times," he insisted, "I've wanted to marry you."</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>It was two or three days before we spoke of marriage again. I believe I scarcely thought of it; we had all the past to account for, and the @@ -9755,7 +9710,7 @@ movement with which he drew me to his breast.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER III</h2> @@ -9869,9 +9824,9 @@ way home, and when we came to my room again I moved before him in the part of Egypt's queen.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Who's born the day<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When I forget to send to Antony<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Shall die a beggar——"<br /></span> +<span class="i4">"Who's born the day<br ></span> +<span class="i0">When I forget to send to Antony<br ></span> +<span class="i0">Shall die a beggar——"<br ></span> </div></div> <p>"Oh, Helmeth, if you could just see me do it!" I was aching to lay up my @@ -10042,7 +9997,7 @@ their master....</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER IV</h2> @@ -10345,7 +10300,7 @@ it in a hole in a corner!"</p> <p>"No, no, my dear!" I protested. "Before God ... it's been before God!" We sobbed together. By and by Love came and comforted us.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>I suppose if it had been possible to go out and be married immediately we should have married the next morning; but in Italy there are @@ -10361,7 +10316,7 @@ couldn't say that I wouldn't.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER V</h2> @@ -10719,7 +10674,7 @@ to percolate through and through me.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER VI</h2> @@ -10845,7 +10800,7 @@ in the little flat I had expressly chosen and furnished to be loved in. The pricking warmth of his presence would meet me as I came up the stair. Not long ago I found myself unexpectedly in a part of the city where we used to walk because we were certain not to meet any of our -friends there. There was a tiny café where we used often to dine, and +friends there. There was a tiny café where we used often to dine, and the memory of it swept over me terrifyingly fresh and strong.</p> <p>With all this, it was plain that we got on best when we were most alone. @@ -11176,7 +11131,7 @@ what I would with him.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER VII</h2> @@ -11494,7 +11449,7 @@ York the next winter.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER VIII</h2> @@ -11554,7 +11509,7 @@ where I felt sure he would come to me. When I learned, however, that nothing was contemplated farther west than Chicago, I lost interest. That very day I had a telegram:</p> -<blockquote><p>"Will you marry me?<br /> +<blockquote><p>"Will you marry me?<br > "Signed: <span class="smcap">Garrett</span>."</p></blockquote> <p>It was dated at Los Angeles, and as I could think of no reason for this @@ -11563,7 +11518,7 @@ the idea of me, had been too much for him, and in that new yielding of mine to the beguiling circumstance, I was disposed to interpret it as evidence that he was coming round. I wired back:</p> -<blockquote><p>"If you marry my work.<br /> +<blockquote><p>"If you marry my work.<br > "<span class="smcap">Olivia.</span>"</p></blockquote> <p>and prepared myself for the renewal of that dear struggle which, if it @@ -11974,8 +11929,8 @@ had to offer? Had I cut myself off from the comfort and stability of a home, simply because in my situation as famous tragedienne I didn't see my way to bring up Helmeth's children so as to make little Pauline Millses of them? I was still raging formlessly in this fashion when Miss -Summers, our ingénue, came to tell me that the cab waited to take us to -the theatre for the matinée.</p> +Summers, our ingénue, came to tell me that the cab waited to take us to +the theatre for the matinée.</p> <p>All through the performance, which I was told went remarkably well, I was conscious of nothing but the seismic shudders and upheavals of my @@ -12018,7 +11973,7 @@ his engagement to Edith Stanley.</p> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > <h2>CHAPTER IX</h2> @@ -12239,7 +12194,7 @@ occasion; and whether great love like that is the best thing that can happen to us or the most unusual, it had placed me forever beyond the reach of futility and cheapness.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>All this was several years ago. Jerry and I are the best of friends and I am far too busy a woman to miss out of my life anything Pauline Mills @@ -12279,7 +12234,7 @@ paths that lead to the Shining Destiny ... why shouldn't women walk in them? I should think some of them might lead less frequently to bramble and morass.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > <p>"And after all," said Jerry, a day or two ago when I had read him some pages of my book, "you have only told your own story, you haven't found @@ -12444,391 +12399,10 @@ I'd not choose to have it any different."</p> <h3>THE END</h3> -<p class="center">THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS<br /> +<p class="center">THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS<br > GARDEN CITY, N. 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