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Updated: May 23, 2025
The 'removal' of an uncle without due process of law and on the unsupported evidence of an unsubpoenable ghost; the widowing of a mother and her casting-off as unspeakably vile, are treated as enterprises about which a man has no right to hesitate or even to feel unhappy." This is not mere speciousness. There is the commonsense of pessimism in it too.
The shoulders under it began to shake, and presently the astonished Jethro heard what seemed to be faint peals of laughter. Suddenly she turned around to him, all trace of laughter gone. "Why don't you read the book?" "So I am," said Jethro, "so I am. Hain't come to this casting-off yet." "And you didn't look ahead to find out?" This with scorn. "Never heard of readin' a book in that fashion.
The shoulders under it began to shake, and presently the astonished Jethro heard what seemed to be faint peals of laughter. Suddenly she turned around to him, all trace of laughter gone. "Why don't you read the book?" "So I am," said Jethro, "so I am. Hain't come to this casting-off yet." "And you didn't look ahead to find out?" This with scorn. "Never heard of readin' a book in that fashion.
No beginning. No end. Just a bald, brutal casting-off. A hint more than a hint of a fear that she would try to hold him in spite of himself. She smiled small, even teeth clenched and eyelids contracted cruelly as she read a second time, with this unflattering suggestion obtruding. The humiliation of being jilted!
In those days when Evelyn saw dissolving about her the material splendors of her old life, while the Golden House was being dismantled, and she was taking sad leave of the scenes of her girlhood, so vivid with memory of affection and of intellectual activity, they seemed only the shell, the casting-off of which gave her freedom.
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