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I glanced up, and saw the calm succeed the storm. I kept on, and after awhile I was aware of hearing her step on the stairs." Alderling stopped, and smoked definitively, as if that were the end. "Well," I said, after waiting a while, "I don't exactly get the unique value of the incident." "Oh," he said, as if he had accidentally forgotten the detail, "the steps were coming up?" "Yes?"
"Isn't it all there is?" she asked, and Alderling burst into his laugh. "I'm afraid she's got you there, Wanhope. When it comes to polemics there's nothing like the passive obstruction of Mrs. Alderling. Marion might never have been an early Christian herself I think she's an inexpugnable pagan but she would have gone round making it awfully uncomfortable for the other unbelievers."
He was to have driven me to the station, some miles away, before noon, and I supposed we should sit down together, and try to have some sort of talk before I went. But Alderling appeared to have forgotten about my going, and after a while, took himself off to his studio, and left me alone to watch the inroads of the fog. It came on over the harbor rapidly, as on that morning when Mrs.
Haven't you got a mother, or sister, or some one that you could visit, Mrs. Alderling? It would do you both a world of good." But it happened, oddly enough, that the Alderlings were as kinless as they were childless, and if he had gone to Europe he would have taken her with him, and prolonged their seclusion by the isolation in which people necessarily live in a foreign country.
It seems to me that it would be more to your purpose if it were less pat, in its catastrophe, but you are a better judge of all that than I am, and I will put the facts in your hands, and keep my own hands off, so far as any plastic use of the material is concerned. The first I knew of the peculiar Alderling situation was shortly after William James's "Will to Believe" came out.
Alderling rowed a good deal on the cove before the cottage; but she had a boat, which she managed very well, and which she was out in, pretty much the whole time when she was not cooking, or eating or sleeping, or roaming the berry-pastures with me, or sitting to Alderling for his Madonnas.
It's the lingering earthiness in her that makes the Damozel so divine." "Yes, that was a great conception. I wonder none of the fellows do that kind of thing now." I laughed and said, "Well, so few of them have had the advantage of seeing Mrs. Alderling. And besides, Rosettis don't happen every day." "It was the period, too. I always tell her that she belongs among the later eighteen sixties.
I confess this unexpected turn struck me dumb. I did not try to say anything, and Alderling went on. "I don't deny that she is living, but I can't believe that I shall ever live to see her again, or if you prefer, die to see her.
We should not have burned anybody at the stake for saying that we had souls." Alderling put back his pipe and cackled round it, taking his knee between his hands again. "You know," she explained, more in my direction than to me, "that I had none to begin with. But Alderling had. His people believed in the future life." "That's what they said," Alderling crowed.
Alderling had got to the veranda before us, and done things to the chairs and cushions, and was leaning against one of the slender fluted pine columns like some rich, blond caryatid just off duty, with the blue of her dress and the red of her hair showing deliciously against the background of white house-wall.
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