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Updated: May 24, 2025
He had a maddening habit of casting forth the match with which he lighted his pipe. He would sit at a table surrounded with match-holders of every variety one Christmas Kate had put six of the latest novelties in this line in his sock and he would strike a light, and then thoughtlessly throw the dead match either towards the window or the fireplace.
For one day, when he had dragged me up to his room with him, he bewildered me by shaking out before my eyes a profusion of embroidered sofa-cushions, fancy pillows, cigar-cases, match-holders, crocheted purses, worked waistcoats, etc.; presents from every description of person of the feminine gender. In every drawer he pulled out there were presents of the sort; they hung over chairs and on pegs.
And I thought nothing; absolutely nothing. I had no ideas; I had no strength. I felt no sorrow, no desire for action, no inclination to go upstairs and fall upon the body of my wife. I just saw the pink effulgence, the cane tables, the palms, the globular match-holders, the indented ash-trays.
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