Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 4, 2025
She said it, but she knew in a moment that she had used the wrong word, and was covered with confusion. Lorrimer looked at her and laughed. "And so do I," he said. "Oh! if only I could unsay that!" thought Ideala; but the word had gone forth, and was already garnered against her. Then came an awful moment for her the moment of going and paying.
The woman had a third-class ticket, but she was evidently ill, and when the guard came and wanted to turn her out, Ideala took pity on her, insisted on changing tickets, and travelled third class herself.
Why, this old green ball of an earth would roll on just as merrily without any of us." Lorrimer wrote to her at last. He had been obliged to acquiesce; and I took Ideala his letter; but she, womanlike, though nothing would have altered her decision, was not at first satisfied with his compliance. It seemed to her too ready; and that made her doubt if she might not have been to blame after all.
"Lorrimer is restored to your good graces now, I suppose," Claudia said, in her half sarcastic way, when the mistake was explained. I had not told her what was in my mind; she had read my thoughts. "You think that a man whom Ideala has loved should consider himself sacred," she added. I did not answer.
The three chatted while they waited, each hiding him, or her, self beneath the light froth of easy conversation; and people, not accustomed to look on the surface for signs of what is working beneath, would have thought them merry enough. As she began to know her companions better, Ideala was more and more drawn to Lorrimer.
"But one thing always puzzles me. Ideala rails at evils that never hurt her, and yet she speaks of marriage, which has been her bane, as if it were a holy and perfect state, upon which it is a privilege to enter." "Plenty of people have condemned marriage simply because their own experience of it has been unfortunate," I answered; "but Ideala is above that.
"Well, no," Ideala acknowledged, "I always adopt a little pleonasm myself to avoid Christian controversy, and say 'when So-and-so became' a Roman or Anglican Catholic, a Protestant, Positivist, or whatever else it might be; and I let them say 'convert' or 'pervert, whichever they like, to me, because I know that it really cannot matter, so long as they are agreeable not that anybody ever expects them to be, poor little people! although they know quite well that they should never let their angry passions rise.
It was Ideala, herself not as she had been, but as I always hoped she would be, and felt she might. She showed the change in every gesture, but most of all in her clear and steady eyes, which made you feel she had a purpose now, and a future yet before her.
"Well, let that pass, then," said Ideala; "also the dear familiar 'subtle scents abroad upon the night. But what does she mean by 'On with rush and ring'?" "She means the train, obviously." "What an outlandish periphrasis! And how about The rugged brows of those old rocks, storm-rent and hoary, Are quivering in their grim surprise?"
Just to look at it makes me feel a better man." In the days that followed a singular change came over Ideala. No external circumstance affected her. She moved like one in a dream; thought had ceased for her; all life was one delicious sensation, and at times she could not bear the delight of it in silence.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking