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Updated: June 10, 2025
She sighed, and let the tired muscles of her face rest. Under the hard lights, indoors, they had served her until they ached, and it was a luxury to feel that in the darkness no grimacings need call upon them. "Of course, if you won't tell me " she said. "I can only assure you there's nothing to tell." "I know what an ugly little house it is," she said.
They move about furtively with no word for one another, lost in their grotesque dreamings. On a rainy day the city gives them up and they come puttering excitedly into the loop on a quest. The world is a garish unreality to them. The streets and the crowds of automatic-faced men and women, the upward rush of buildings and the horizontal rush of traffic are no more than vague grimacings.
I alone had scrutinized her grimacings, and stripped away the thin rind that sufficed to conceal her real nature from the world; her trickery no longer deceived me; I had sounded the depths of that feline nature. I blushed for her when some donkey or other flattered and complimented her. And yet I loved her through it all! I hoped that her snows would melt with the warmth of a poet's love.
Disillusionment with the causes of the war has, however, served no high purpose. And we find the proletaire still worshipping, albeit with the squirmings and grimacings, a horrible idealization of itself. The Thou Shalt Nots have escaped. They increase and multiply with a life of their own. Logic is the most irresponsible of the manias which operate in life.
Once married, you will show signs of uneasiness and remorse; for a couple of weeks you will be depressed. Then, some night after sundry grimacings, comes the confession, between two kisses, 'Two hundred thousand francs of debts, my darling! This sort of farce is played every day in Paris, and by young men of the highest fashion.
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