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So she would prove herself a veritable helpmate, and the bond of marital sympathy would be strengthened and refreshed. To begin with, Selma hinted to Mrs. Williams that Mr. Parsons might do worse than employ Wilbur to design his house. Flossy accepted the suggestion with enthusiasm and promised her support, adding that Mr.
Let us build our social system so that it will stand the wear and tear of another day and will not fall in ruins about our heads." "I am terribly ignorant about all these things," said Jane. "What a ridiculous thing my education has been!" "But it hasn't spoiled your heart," cried Selma.
Why, it wasn't the writing of an "anarchistic crank" at all on the contrary, the writer was if anything more excusing toward the men who were giving the drivers and motormen a dollar and ten cents a day for fourteen hours' work "fourteen hours!" cried Jane, her cheeks burning yes, Selma Gordon was more tolerant of the owners of the street car line than Jane herself would have been.
I have wanted, and I still want, to be friends with you good friends just as you and Selma Gordon are though of course I couldn't hope to be as close a friend as she is. I'm too ignorant too useless." He shook his head with him, a gesture that conveyed the full strength of negation. "We are on opposite sides of a line across which friendship is impossible.
At Rock-west I found a very intelligent colored man who had attended school at Selma, Ala., for a few years. He owned his home and ran a small grocery. He told of the hardships with which he had to contend in building up his business, and of the almost hopeless condition of the Negroes about there. He said that they usually made money each year, but that they did not know how to keep it.
"I've no doubt you mean well. You simply don't understand me my sort of woman." "It's you that don't understand, Selma," cried he. "You don't realize how wonderful you are how much you reveal of yourself at once. I was all but engaged to another woman when I saw you.
Victor turned his head quickly, opened his eyes, gave her a look of welcome that made her thrill with pride. "Oh there you are!" he exclaimed. "I was hoping you'd come." "I saw David Hull just after it was done," said Selma. "And I thanked him for you." Victor's eyes had a look of amusement, of mockery. "Thank you," he said. She, the sensitive, was on the alert at once.
He brooded over his quandary in silence for twenty-four hours. On the second day he concluded to speak of the matter to Selma. He knew that she kept a general run of public affairs. Not infrequently she had asked him questions concerning measures before the Legislature, and he was pleasantly aware that she was ambitious to be regarded as a politician.
She was unwilling to disclose her secret, lest the knowledge of it might make Wilbur offish and so embarrass her efforts. There were eight in the party, and the affair seemed to Selma to go off admirably. She was enthralled by the idea of using her own personal magnetism to promote her husband's business.
"The difficulty is," said Pauline, with a laugh, "that I shouldn't regard it as an opportunity, and I am sure it wouldn't help me to get ahead, as you call it, with the people I desire to impress, to give afternoon tea or women-club lectures. I don't know enough to lecture effectively. As to enterprise, I am busy from morning until night. What more can a woman do? You mustn't hurry Wilbur, Selma.
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