This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI. The sexes suspect each other. Even the heartiest sympathy falls short of sympathy in proportion as there is therein an admixture of good-natured tolerance. And much of the sympathy between sex and sex is no more than a purposed toleration of probable weakness little understood. There was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI. The sexes suspect each other. Even the heartiest sympathy falls short of sympathy in proportion as there is therein an admixture of good-natured tolerance. And much of the sympathy between sex and sex is no more than a purposed toleration of probable weakness little understood. There was a note in Jessamine's message pitched too high for Dr. Cornerstone's comprehension. Even his insight into her probable misery could not account for it, and it irritated him. "She can go away. She can break the tie. Let her free herself," said he. To those not within the delicate meshes of some difficulty action seems always possible. "It seems easy, doesn't it? The odd thing is that everybody's individual mess is a sort of charmed circle out of which they do not find it so simple to step," returned Carteret. "Shall you go?" "Yes. Hysteria and wretchedness are my business." It was getting dusk next day when Dr. Cornerstone found himself alone in the private sitting room of Lady Heriot. A single lamp, covered with a shade, served rather to add to the obscurity than to illumine it, but he saw that the room was furnished with every possible luxury. It gave him a sense of oppression to be there; the wretched hours spent therein by an unhappy soul burdened the atmosphere. There seemed no escaping the infection; the breath sucked it in, and it lay heavy on the heart. He sat down to await her coming; he thought of her as of one who had left his guidance to learn life's merciless lesson by herself. Some deep experience she had conned alone. But that, he said, is life. And here, after ten years, he sat on her hearth watching the light stealing from the window and giving place to shadows, and the lamp glowing more and more to a ruby redness....
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