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Mary herself stood there with the cloak falling open so that the convulsive throbbing of her throat was laid bare. The two marvelous and mismated eyes looked at them all and did not see them. The sister of Hamilton Burton, the woman whom two continents had toasted, was seeing other things.
A rattlebanging cart, with jangling bells on a string across the back, a galled jade of a horse, broken traces, mismated lines whoa! giddap, there! oh Warble, come with me!" He swooped her up in one gigantic arm, but she slipped through and running around, faced him impishly. "Would you really like me to go ridy-by in your wagon, and curl up in the rags and watch the stars shoot around overhead?"
This was no such thing, yet, in some phase, was life going to repeat itself over and over in the endless earth journeys he might have to make, futilities of mismated minds, the outcry of defrauded souls? But at least this wasn't his cowardly silence on the heel of Anne's gasping cry. He could be honest here, for this was Nan.
"Who ever told you I wanted to work on a large scale?" demanded Flint, savagely. "I er inferred beg pardon, sir I " And Herzog quite lost himself and floundered hopelessly, while his mismated eyes wandered about the room as though seeking the assurance he so sadly lacked. "Confine yourself to answering what I ask you," directed Flint, crisply. "You're not paid to infer.
Certain Territories bank on their divorce laws, and the mismated have but to go there and live a few months to obtain a separation on almost any claim.
By the time he returned they would have half their garments on wrong; waist and trousers front side to rear; right shoes on left feet; buttons hopelessly mismated to buttonholes; shoelacings oddly zigzagged.
"Do you remember how people said we were mismated that a man of fifty could never hope to keep the love of a girl of twenty, who knew nothing of the world?" "I remember," muttered Miriam. "And it was false, wasn't it?" he asked, hungering for assurance. "Constance loved me do you remember how dearly she loved me?" A thousand words struggled for utterance, but Miriam could not speak just then.
It would seem paradoxical to assert that the parents of such a genius were mismated, but their home was not a happy one, the mother being of a nervous temperament, which perhaps in some measure accounted for the genius of the child. The father led the life of a soldier, and finally perished in the campaign against the Turks. Young Kepler's studies were directed with an eye to the ministry.
Boots, mismated socks, the torn, patched trousers, the greasy flannel shirt, the threadbare coat, the nondescript slouch hat were thrown in a pile on the floor; and with them, from their hiding-place, the grease paints and heterogeneous collection of make-up accessories.
If she found she no longer cared for me, I could not blame her. But two people, mismated, have only one chance in this world to live their tragedy through with dignity. That is absolutely all life holds for them. Beyond that, outside of that dead line treachery to self and race and civilisation! That is my conclusion after a year's experience in hell."
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