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Updated: June 9, 2025
For love is spirit the stuff of dreams and love is Giving.... He must bring to women again, lest they forget, this word: that never yet has man sung, painted, prophesied, made a woman happy, nor in any way woven finer the spirit of his time, but that God first covenanted with his mother for the gift and, more often than not, the gift was startled into its supreme expression by the daughter of another.... All in a sentence, it summed at last, to Bedient alone, a flaming sentence for all women to hear: Only through the potential greatness of women can come the militant greatness of men.
Instead of the peace of her presence, he was filled with restless energies, past all precedent. Quite in a boyish way, he wanted to do things for her, huge and little things, forgetting not the least, and performing each succeeding action with a finer art. Beth Truba was the first woman who ever appealed to Bedient, without recalling in some way the Adelaide passion.
He can do his twelve miles an hour, and turn around and do it back.... You see how he handles for me." She delighted in his show qualities, rarely combined with such excellent substance. She showed his gaits, but rode a trot by preference. Bedient, who had a good mare, laughed joyously when his mount was forced into a run to keep abreast.
In fact, Bedient had done more to disconcert the master of the establishment by stating the exact facts, than by any strategy he might have evolved.... Bedient arose at length and took the cold hand. He could not forbear a laugh. "I am flexible enough to appreciate your position," he said.
As for Vina Nettleton, the cloistered, she could do as she liked, being great in her calling; besides, a woman who had a man-visitor so rarely as Vina Nettleton, might be expected to become snappy and excited. Bedient was proving a rather stiff drug. Mrs. Wordling now wished to observe his action upon Beth Truba.
He did not hurry. It seemed as if she would take his hand, after all, and lead him into the hotel. Just a little girl little over twenty. For the first time it struck Bedient that he must leave. He was startled that he had not left. His only palliation for such a venture into two lives was the memories her voice roused. His lips tightened with scorn of self.
He's always been a good boy good when he was growin' up, and kind and 'bedient and well-behaved. Won't you let me advise you, sir, not to do so no more? Be a good man, and leave liquor alone and live peaceably and goodly. Keep away from bad company and work honest and sleep sweet." The black-mitted hand of the old pleader gently touched the breast of the man she addressed.
Her pride had sent him away even after that his laugh, his Greek beauty, his passion and all.... And now it came to her with fierce reality, that should the Other ever return, it would only make these later hours and later memories burn the deeper.... A temptation came to hold Bedient as a woman could to keep him from going to another woman, but her eyes fell with swift shame from the picture.
Under Beth's mirth, during the recent talk with David Cairns, had been much of verity. She was carrying an unhealed wound, which neither he nor the world understood. In Andrew Bedient she had discerned a fine and deeply-endowed nature glimpses as if he were some great woman's gift to the world, her soul and all.
Framtree shivered and fell silent. "You've found work that you like here?" Bedient asked simply. The other glanced at him humorously, and yet with a bit of intensity, too, as if searching for the meaning under such an unadorned question. "I seem to have caught on with Señor Rey at The Pleiad," he replied. "Ah " "I'm afraid you're making a mistake, sir," Framtree added quickly.
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