This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... VI. ON GIVING IN IN MARRIAGE fi Y son, I have had the most wearing afternoon, and now that it is all over I am very glad indeed to find that there isn't a word of truth in it--for a while at any rate. Of course the trouble was all to do with you, and of course it happened when I was sewing one of those long, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... VI. ON GIVING IN IN MARRIAGE fi Y son, I have had the most wearing afternoon, and now that it is all over I am very glad indeed to find that there isn't a word of truth in it--for a while at any rate. Of course the trouble was all to do with you, and of course it happened when I was sewing one of those long, straight seams that are to my thoughts what the road across the Salisbury Plains is to a man with a motor. With enough petrol and that long white ribbon to run on, he simply eats up time and distance even as I with two selvedges and no fancy stitches to make live whole life-times between the waist and the hem. This time, beloved, you were getting married. It was no use my saying I liked it, because I didn't. I hated it. I knew that it would have to happen some day, but the some day one doesn't want one always puts a conveniently long distance off. And I had been lulled into a false sense of security by your charming behaviour to all the girls in the country round, the girls that Oliver and I had thought of as possible helpmeets for you in the years to come. At five I chose your wife gaily; at fifteen I commended the gallant way you watched the plate of the blue-eyed twelve-year-old with the long legs and the pigtail who rode races with you over the downs and raided the cook on baking days. But at twenty--at twenty the time began to draw in, and that which one had jested about was no longer a jesting matter. Then it was that I began to look with apprehensive eyes upon whatsoever girls were pretty, whatsoever girls were charming, and whatsoever girls you danced with more than twice. But after a while I gave up troubling. You were so nice to them all that peace came to me again. Once or twice, when you were walking across to the tennis ground, ...
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