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I was glad when his stream dried up. Pendlam next arose and read a paper upon "Magnetisms and Organizations." After him, came forward a gentleman with a model, illustrating the design of a dwelling-house for the Associated Disciples. He showed, entirely to the satisfaction of himself at least, that society should be reduced to a mechanism, and mankind to pivots and wheels.
"You see where I am," said Pendlam. "I am compelled to go to other women for the magnetisms I need; she must receive what she requires from other men." "That is interesting," I replied. "What is the peculiar process of imparting these magnetisms?"
I shall read with interest what I had to say on the subject before my mind had attained its present plane. Good night! You see where I am," added Pendlam. Thenceforward the Pendlams were frequent visitors at the theatres. When John Henry was too much occupied to attend, Clodman had the gallantry to escort Susan.
They were drinking, and talking over the Organization of Free Disciples. Several wealthy men have become interested in the enterprise, and large amounts have been subscribed. Pendlam is writing a work on the subject." "And Susan?" "Her child is sick, and claims all her attention. They are trying to cure it with magnetisms.
Horatio had previously told me, what I could hardly believe, that Mrs. D was accustomed to abuse her son-in-law in this way, in the presence of strangers. Susan did nothing but sigh. Pendlam smiled, as if he was used to it. "I need a little such invective occasionally, to refresh my zeal," he said, with provoking meekness. "It shows me where I am. It assures me that I am fighting the good fight.
"Perhaps I have not had the requisite experience; but" I laid my hand on Pendlam's shoulder "I know a man who has fallen from several balloons!" "Here is one," said Pendlam, turning to the table, "which I have just drawn. I was trying to get at its meaning when you came in." He showed me a sketch consisting of a number of zigzag lines, joined one to another, and tending towards a circle.
I said I avoided the house; but one day Horatio came to me with a doleful face, backing a petition that I would go and talk with Susan. "There has been an explosion! The old woman is gone; she has declared open, internecine war against Pendlam." "I thought she had declared that some time ago, good Horatio!" "Ah, but now she is trying to get his wife away from him!
Our attempted Association was a necessary foreshadowing of what remains to be unfolded; a prophetic symbol. We have all been taught great lessons." "And the vulture and the lamb!" I said, sternly; "where are they?" "I perceive," answered Pendlam, charitably, "you do not understand." "It is you," I cried, "who have failed to understand your own symbols. To use plain language, then, where is Susan?
One day during the ensuing summer, I asked Horatio the usual question, "Where is Pendlam now?" referring, as John Henry himself would have said, not to locality, but condition. "That is impossible to say," replied Horatio, "for I have not seen him since yesterday. Then he was situated opposite a bottle of pale sherry, which that rascal Clodman had just brought to the house.
Susan began to cry, and the scene became so painful to me, that I made haste to shake hands with the ill-mated couple, say a few soothing words, and take leave of them. From that time, I saw Pendlam occasionally, but avoided the house.
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