A Social Meteor — page 84: what you’re looking at

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74 | A SOCIAL METEOR. you saying? Generally speaking, you are one of the merriest, brightest women I ever met.”’ ‘Well, my heart’s usually heavy, for all that.” As Georgie made no reply, Ray dragged her- self toward her, and laying her head in her lap, continued in a weary tone: “Vou see, dear, you don’t know the horrors of | living with a man you hate and despise.” ‘You hate and despise!” echoed Georgie. “Why, this is dreadful, Ray; I can’t understand it.” “No, I say youcan’t. But I do, only too well.” “But since when have you turned against your husband? When you married him you cared for him surely.” “No, I never cared for him, I tolerated him, but that was all. I knew from the first that he was anything but the kind of man I would wish to marry, but I thought he was better than he was, and he gets more insufferable every day. It’s only a question of time how long I can stand 1c. _ “What is the reason you hate him ?” “Oh, they are many. He’s mean and stingy, and so narrow-minded. ‘Theonly thing he spends money for without grumbling is his table; being a gourmand himself, he doesn’t consider gluttony Eomichbooks (E(o)