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| She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. |
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| Shen a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. |
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| Though all humans be still enclosed in the shops, the thrill runs abroad. It is in the air. The fullest feel something which they may not always express or describe. It is the lifting of the burden of toil. |
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| Amid all the maze, uproar, and novelty she felt cold reality taking her by the hand. No world of light and merriment. No round of amusement. Her sister carried with her most of the grimness of shift and toil. |
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| She read...in the whole atmosphere of the flat, a settled opposition to anything save a conservative round of toil. |
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| Transplantation is not always successful in the matter of flowers or maidens. It requires sometimes a richer soil, a better atmosphere to continue even a natural growth. It would have been better if her acclimatization had been more gradual--less rigid. She would have done better if she had not secured a position so quickly, and had seen more of the city which she constantly troubled to know about. |
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| All that evening she sat alone in the front room looking out upon the street, where the lights were reflected on the wet pavements, thinking. She had imagination enough to be moody. |
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| She felt so relieved in his radiant presence, so much looked after and cared for, that she assented gladly, though with the slightest air of holding back. |
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| In his good clothes and fine health, he was a merry, unthinking moth of the lamp. Deprived of his position, and struck by a few of the involved and baffling forces which sometimes play upon a man, he would have been as helpless as Carrie--as helpless, as nonunderstanding, as pitiable, if you will, as she. |
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| The best proof that there was something open and commendable about the man was the fact that _____took the money. |
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| She followed whither her craving led. She was as yet more drawn than she drew. |
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| Among the forces which sweep and play throughout the universe, untutored man is but a wisp in the wind. |
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| Habits are peculiar things. They will drive the really non-religious mind out of bed to say prayers that are only a custom and not a devotion. |
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| _____ had no excellent home principles fixed upon her. If she had, she would have been more consciously distressed...She was again the victim of the city's hypnotic influence. |
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| Such an atmosphere could hardly come under the category of home life. It ran along by force of habit, by force of conventional opinion. With the lapse of time it must necessarily become dryer and dryer--must eventually be tinder, easily lighted and destroyed. |
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| Seeing a thing, she would immediately set to inquiring how she would look, properly related to it. Be it known that this is not fine feeling, it is not wisdom. The greatest minds are not so afflicted; and, on the contrary, the lowest order of mind is not so disturbed. Fine clothes to her were a vast persuasion; they spoke tenderly and Jesuitically for themselves. |
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| Under the circumstances, she did not need to carry herself as pretty women do. She picked that knowledge up fast enough for herself. |
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| _____ had a habit, characteristic of his kind, of looking after stylishly dressed or pretty women on the street and remarking upon them.He had just enough of the feminine love of dress to be a good judge--not of intellect, but of clothes. |
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| In short, her knowledge of grace doubled, and with it her appearance changed. She became a girl of considerable taste. |
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| In a dim way, she was beginning to see where he lacked. If it had not been for this, if she had not been able to measure and judge him in a way, she would have been worse off than she was. She would have adored him. |
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| He was not overawed, he was not overbold. His great charm was attentiveness. Schooled in winning those birds of fine feather among his own sex, the merchants and professionals who visited his resort, he could use even greater tact when endeavoring to prove agreeable to someone who charmed him. In a pretty woman of an refinement of feeling whatsoever he found his greatest incentive. |
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| She possessed an innate taste for imitation and no small ability. |
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| "Let the woman you look upon be wise or vain...beautiful or homely, rich or poor, she has but one thing she can really give or refuse--her heart...Her beauty, her wit, her accomplishments, she may sell to you; but her love is the treasure without money and without price." |
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| _____ residence could scarcely be said to be infused with this home spirit. It lacked that toleration and regard without which the home is nothing. |
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| She turned upon him, animal-like, able to strike an effectual second blow. |
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| She gazed at him--a pythonness in humor. |
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| She was listening, smiling, approving, and yet finally not agreeing. This was due to a lack of power on his part, a lack of that majesty of passion that sweeps the mind from its seat, fuses and melts all arguments and theories into a tangled mass, and destroys for the time being the reasoning power. This majesty of passion is possessed by nearly every man once in his life, but it is usually an attribute of youth and conduces to the first successful mating. |
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| There was the tensity of fierceness in the man's plea which appealed deeply to her sympathies. It was a dissolving fire which was actuating him now. He was loving her too intensely to think of giving her up in this, his hour of distress. He clutched her hand nervously and pressed it with all the force of an appeal. |
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| She was drifting mentally, unable to say to herself what to do. |
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| The sea was already full of whales. A common fish must needs disappear wholly from view--remain unseen. In other words, _____ was nothing. |
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| He now turned his attention to _____, and in a flash _____ saw again what she for some time had subconsciously missed in _____--the adroitness and flattery of which he was capable. |
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| "I sometimes think it is a shame for people to spend so much money this way." |
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| This strong young man beside her, with his clear, natural look, seemed to get a hold of a lot of things which she did not quite understand, but approved of. It was fine to be so, as a man, she thought. |
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| Back in the dining room she sat in her chair and rocked. Her little hands were folded tightly as she though. Through a fog of longing and conflicting desires she was beginning to see. Oh, ye legions of hope and pity--of sorrow and pain! She was rocking, and beginning to see. |
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| Several times he found himself staring at an item, but thinking of something else. The first of these lapses that he sharply noticed concerned a hilarious party he had once attended at a driving club, of which he had been a member. |
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| He looked so disconsolate that it scared her. She began to see that she herself had been drifting. She had felt it all the time. |
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| Sitting alone, she was now an illustration of the devious ways by which one who feels, rather than reasons, may be led in the pursuit of beauty. Though often disillusioned, she was still waiting for that halcyon day when she should be led forth among dreams become real. |
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| IN your rocking chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel. |
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| There she heard a different voice, with which she argued, pleaded, excused. It was no just and sapient counselor, in its last analysis. It was only an average little conscience, a thing which represented the world, her past environment, habit, convention, in a confused way. With it, the voice of the people was truly the voice of God. |
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| "That puts a burden of duty on you. It so happens that you have this thing. It is no credit to you--that is, I mean, you might not have had it. You paid nothing to get it. But now that you have it, you must do something with it." |
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| "You can lose it, you know. If you turn away from it and live to satisfy yourself alone, it will go fast enough. The look will leave your eyes. Your mouth will change. Your power to act will disappear. You may think they won't, but they will. Nature takes care of that." |
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| "It's a thing the world likes to see, because it's a natural expression of its longing." |
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| If honest labor be unremunerative and difficult to endure; if it be the long, long road which never reaches beauty, but wearies the feet and the heart; if the drag to follow beauty be such that one abandons the admired way, taking rather the despised path leading to her dreams quickly, who shall cast the first stone? |
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