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. 1913 Excerpt: ... each evening, to look into Barbara's homelike face, to hear her voice as she recounted her mild adventures, or to watch the lights and shadows in her eyes as she listened to his own more vivid chronicles of that living maelstrom in which they had been whirled. Often, after dinner, they walked together, or went to ...
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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. 1913 Excerpt: ... each evening, to look into Barbara's homelike face, to hear her voice as she recounted her mild adventures, or to watch the lights and shadows in her eyes as she listened to his own more vivid chronicles of that living maelstrom in which they had been whirled. Often, after dinner, they walked together, or went to plays, viewing them from lofty, inexpensive vantages, so that they knew in time, as Barbara declared, the tops of most of the celebrated actors and actresses of their day. Or, as Jerry put it, they had of dramatic art a barber's point of view. However that may have been, they had the eyes to see through the head to the very heart of things; and these emotional diversions, with their varied pageantry of joy and sorrow, gave them opportunities to weep and laugh together--privileges of intimacy that the ordinary humdrum course of things could not have granted them so lavishly, with such swift and subtle disclosures and conclusions. One midnight as they returned, sad and silent, from the theatre, with their eyes upon the slimy pavement underfoot, rather than on the long perspective of shining street lamps that were quite as true to life, Barbara sighed: "Oh, dear! I wish we hadn't gone. Such things are, of course. But a play like that leaves you with a false suggestion--that its story is inevitable. For all of us. And that isn't true." "Still, I'm not sorry that we went," Jeremy made answer, out of his own dark musings. "It makes some things--you, for example--so much more--so much more... exquisite." There was really nothing for Barbara to say, so she said nothing--wondering if she ought to be certain that she had heard aright. But, from that instant, the play was no longer of the slightest consequence. Life, after all, ...
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