Married Son-4

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1 2167 words 2020-04-10 16:24:42

It's the drollest thing in the world, and really the most precious note of the mystic influence known in the place as “the force of public opinion”—which is in other words but the incubus of small domestic conformity; I really believe there's nothing we do, or don't do, that excites in the bosom of our circle a subtler sense that we're “au fond” uncanny. And it's amusing to think that this is our sole tiny touch of independence! That she should come forth with me at those hours, that she should hang about with me, and that we should have last (and, when she meets me again, first) small sweet things to say to each other, as if we were figures in a chromo or a tableau vwant keeping our tryst at a stile—no, this, quite inexplicably, transcends their scheme and baffles their imagination. They ……

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