Life — January 10, 1895 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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LIFE - THE New HERoINe.—(A Scene from the Drama of To-morrow.) And do you really love me ? With all my heart and soul; and yet— ‘Yet what ?- Why do you look’ so strangely at me? ‘There is something mind, something you have not the courage to tell me. ELINA: Ican hide nothing from you. Even though it should wreck both our ou have the right to know the truth, DWIN: My own darling, what is in your heart ? ELINA: Can you bear to hear it? Don't look at me, or I shall not have the courage to say what must be said. I have never lived a disreputable life. Ebwin (burying his face in his hands): Great Heaven! and I believed in you so utterly. (Then rising, with a desperate effort to control his emotion). Good-bye. ANGELINA (falling on her knees and clinging to him): Ab, no, you shall not go. Think of it, of the temptations to virtue that surrounded me, of the examples of simple rirlhood that poisoned my youth. If I have lived a life of spotless innocence, remember, Rt least, that I knew no better. What else could I do? Brought up from earliest infancy by a mother of unblemished reputation ? N (with a gesture of horror): Your mother too? Our marriage is im- possible. H[ ANGrLINA: How hard you men are. Is your sex alone to have the monopoly of Gjanocence? Must there always be one law for women and another for dramatic authors ? }Ph, it is cruel! cruel! But you will not leave me. Remember, I am still young ; it is fever too late to err. And is it because I am a woman that | am to be denied the chance bf retrieving the innocence of a mis-spent youth by the indescretions of a riper woman- hood? Besides, are there not cases, cases known to us both where a wife has lived down he terrible reproach of a blameless girlhood? Why, even Mr, Jones's latest heroine, and there is nothing later than that, could not absolutely prove she had gone wrong, and yet her husband took her back! But you are so proud, so relentless, You have no pity in your heart. EDWIN: Believe me, it is not pride. For myself, I would gladly brave the censure of the world, and if in after years men should say in Scorn he married her though there was nothing’ against her, I should still be happy, knowing I had your love. But my father, that dear old man in his quiet, country vicarage. Think of it? It is too horrible | ANGELINA (with bowed head): You are right, had forgotten your father. Epwix: How could I ever look into that ‘sweet, wrinkled face, and meet those reverend eyes, knowing that I was asking him to receive as a daughter one who had never even once strayed from the paths of virtue ? ANGEL I see it all now, good-bye. Good-bye. ‘A (as he ts going): Come back. : Ah! don’t torture me, I can bear no more ! - ANGELINA: But what if I were to tell you that this confession, so humiliating to us both, was but a ruse to test the strength of your devotion. EpWiN: Ah, don’t raise a false hope within me, only to plunge me again in the abyss of despaii : But this is no false hope. (eagerly): What do you mean ? ANGELINA (burying her head on his shoulder) : than I should be. EpwIn (embracing her) : I mean that I have been no better My own true love, nothing can part us now. [Curtain.] Punch. SiR BENJAMIN GUINNESS, of XXX Stout fame was in Dublin, and had shown an American tourist the Cathedral ‘restored by Guinness,” the schools ‘founded by Guinness,” and the brewery. ** Well,” said Sir B, ‘* What do you think of that?” “+1 guess,” quoth the Yankee, ‘I never saw a more remarkable combination of sal- vation, education, and damnation.” Guinness didn’t speak.— Exchange. Is kissing proper ? Let's put our heads together and consider.—Exchange. For we by ll Nevetealers fo Great Bria. The Tater national News Compan; iream's Building, Chance: Lane, Leadon, EC, England, hours id eNTS—Mesera. 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