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Updated: June 5, 2025
"I'm a miserable, degraded creature; I'm not fit to be in the same room with you!" Magdalen bent over her, and whispered a question in her ear. Louisa whispered back the one sad word of reply. "Has he deserted you?" asked Magdalen, after waiting a moment, and thinking first. "No." "Do you love him?" "Dearly." The remembrance of her own loveless marriage stung Magdalen to the quick.
All the same, I should be sorry to see you entering into a loveless marriage." For a moment she was silent, then she suddenly plunged into speech. "Dear Mr. Helmsley, do you really think all the silly sentiment talked and written about love is any good in marriage? We know so much nowadays, and the disillusion of matrimony is so very complete!
There was still the pity of understanding in Ruth's eyes. Perhaps it was loneliness. Perhaps he had lost his loved ones and was wandering over the world seeking forgetfulness. But he would die if he continued in this course. They were alike in one phase loveless and lonely. If he died, here in this hotel, who would care? Or if she died, who would care?
His frail body and towering ambition, his loveless life that knew not what it missed, roused in her a pity almost maternal. A fierce resentment rose within her against herself, for not loving him as she knew a husband should be loved. If he had only won her with his heart instead of his head! The door bell rang and Miss Lady glanced up apprehensively.
What was he but a troth-breaker, a liar and that in strong fact, not in feeble tongue? "What am I," said Conscience, "but a cruel, self-seeking, loveless horror a contemptible sneak, who, in dread of missing the praises of men, crept away unseen, and left the woman to bear alone our common sin?"
Is not this the scientific spirit, this attitude of criticism, with no prejudice or affection to color its results? Of course one must answer that there is much truth which can be discovered by a loveless mind. Yet there is, on the other hand, much truth which cannot be discerned without love.
Wasn't a year or two of hurt feelings, even anger and resentment, better than a loveless marriage that might last fifty years? This was a terrible problem, and Norma did not know what to think.
The change in such a world made by the discovery that his being an adopted son set him apart in a class different from other boys a class unlovely and loveless had been great, had stolen much of the joy from living; but he was very young then, and the joy of mere living and breathing was strong in his blood, and he had gradually become accustomed hardened, if you will to the idea of his dependence upon charity.
You seemed to think that the liberation of women consisted in transforming them into loveless, materialistic thugs, into workaholics whose only desire is wealth, into aggression driven beings that possessed little shred of real humanity, into, in a word, men. I think it would have been a much better endeavor to have attempted to change men into women."
Thus, caring only for those things which wealth can buy, she had made up her mind that she could not do without Horace Smithson's money; and she must therefore needs resign herself to the disagreeable necessity of taking Smithson and his money together. The great auctioneer Fate would not divide the lot. She told herself that for her a loveless marriage was, after all, no prodigious sacrifice.
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