A Social Meteor — page 193: what you’re looking at

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‘ | A SUCIAL METEOR. 183 women to recklessness and ruin. You say I have been extravagant, and perhaps I have, but you—have you been more prudent? If I’ve made an idol of my person, you have made one of your stomach, but there has been this differ- ence between us: I have clothed only myself, while you have fed half the clubs in town. If you had shown a disposition to save, from the beginning, be very sure I should have followed your example. But did you? JLook at your card parties, your fast horses, your wine suppers, before you cry out against me. ‘As the husband is the wife is’ has been only too well proven in our case, and if ever a woman had a ‘clown’ fora husband, that woman has been myself.” His sleepy eyes lighted up for the first time with a little show of interest. ‘Pon my soul, my dear,” he exclaimed, mock- ingly. “I didn’t know you were such a fluent talker; you’d make quite an actress, I do believe. Why don’t you go on the stage and turn an _ honest dollar to help your husband along, instead of wasting your talents by standing there and abusing him like a thief ?”’ She made no reply to this. speech, deleted as it was, in an insulting tone; she turned from him Eomichoo gs) (Eo)