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The Jew laid him down upon a miserable pallet, and for a few moments watched him steadily. Neither sound nor motion revealed the presence of the cold spark of life. The husband's heart was broken. "Poor wretch!" exclaimed the Jew. "Mismated couple; in death as obstinate as in life.
In the middle of the mantel between two mismated tin candlesticks was a bundle of pawn tickets from the Mont-de-Piete. These tickets were of a delicate shade of rose. The room was the best in the hotel the first floor looking out on the boulevard. Meanwhile side by side on the same pillow the two children lay calmly sleeping.
The hapless wretch whom the chairman drags to his feet in a cold perspiration of despair, and who blunders through half a dozen mismated sentences, leaving out whatever he meant to say, is not to be feared; he is to be pitied from the bottom of one's soul.
"Why do you wish to kill me?" asked the young man. "I am one of you. I was made in the same way that you were made." Number Twelve opened his mismated eyes in astonishment. "Then you have already killed Maxon?" he asked. "No. He was wounded by a savage enemy. I have been helping to make him well again. He has wronged me as much as he has you. If I do not wish to kill him, why should you?
Unhappy and mismated marriages, without means of rectification, are the curse of civilization, the living, gnawing cancer of society. In 1913, Nevada, under the lash of exaggerated newspaper notoriety, enacted a law changing the period of residence for the plaintiff in divorce actions from six months to one year. From Nevada's territorial existence down to that time it had been six months.
The whole trip had been undertaken by him on the spur of the moment; and, as far as lay in his cheery, thoughtless nature, he had come to regret it. The work of the trail had taught him that he was mismated in this company, and the first stern test was stripping the masks from them. He saw three ugly natures, three small, cruel souls. It came Sandersen's turn to walk.
And all these things stamped themselves on young Carl Bristoll's brain as he bowed. Then he realized the delicate white-and-pink glow of her complexion and a marvelous pair of mismated eyes. Later when trying to defend to his own sophisticated mind his unaccountable loss of poise, he assured himself that it was these eyes.
When her eyes next opened hot pains were scorching her temples and her gaze turned instinctively toward the desk. It was empty of its human burden, and, save for the clerk who had that morning received her in the outer room and a physician, the private office was empty, too. Following the hungry question of her mismated eyes, the doctor gravely nodded his head.
It may have come partly, too, from a certain compunction at having breathed to me at all harshly on the cool fair lady who sat there a desire to prove himself not after all so mismated. Dolcino continued to be much better, and it had been promised him he should come downstairs after his dinner.
He was short and stocky. The stolen corduroy coat covered blacksmith's muscles now made doubly powerful by dementia. His hair was lifeless black and clipped close, prison-fashion. His low forehead hung over burning, mismated eyes. From her helplessness on the floor Cora McBride stared up at him. He came closer. "Get up!" he ordered. "Take that chair.
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