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第28章 LETTER XI

My dear and good Friend,I am afraid I trouble you with my querulous epistles,but this is probably the last.To-morrow or the next day decides my fate with respect to the divorce,when I expect to be a free man.In vain!Was it not for her and to lay my freedom at her feet,that I consented to this step which has cost me infinite perplexity,and now to be discarded for the first pretender that came in her way!If so,I hardly think I can survive it.You who have been a favourite with women,do not know what it is to be deprived of one's only hope,and to have it turned to shame and disappointment.There is nothing in the world left that can afford me one drop of comfort--THIS I feel more and more.Everything is to me a mockery of pleasure,like her love.

The breeze does not cool me:the blue sky does not cheer me.I gaze only on her face averted from me--alas!the only face that ever was turned fondly to me!And why am I thus treated?Because I wanted her to be mine for ever in love or friendship,and did not push my gross familiarities as far as I might."Why can you not go on as we have done,and say nothing about the word,FOREVER?"Was it not plain from this that she even then meditated an escape from me to some less sentimental lover?"Do you allow anyone else to do so?"I said to her once,as I was toying with her."No,not now!"was her answer;that is,because there was nobody else in the house to take freedoms with her.I was very well as a stopgap,but I was to be nothing more.While the coast was clear,I had it all my own way:but the instant C----came,she flung herself at his head in the most barefaced way,ran breathless up stairs before him,blushed when his foot was heard,watched for him in the passage,and was sure to be in close conference with him when he went down again.It was then my mad proceedings commenced.No wonder.

Had I not reason to be jealous of every appearance of familiarity with others,knowing how easy she had been with me at first,and that she only grew shy when I did not take farther liberties?What has her character to rest upon but her attachment to me,which she now denies,not modestly,but impudently?Will you yourself say that if she had all along no particular regard for me,she will not do as much or more with other more likely men?"She has had,"she says,"enough of my conversation,"so it could not be that!Ah!my friend,it was not to be supposed I should ever meet even with the outward demonstrations of regard from any woman but a common trader in the endearments of love!I have tasted the sweets of the well practiced illusion,and now feel the bitterness of knowing what a bliss I am deprived of,and must ever be deprived of.Intolerable conviction!Yet I might,I believe,have won her by other methods;but some demon held my hand.

How indeed could I offer her the least insult when I worshipped her very footsteps;and even now pay her divine honours from my inmost heart,whenever I think of her,abased and brutalised as I have been by that Circean cup of kisses,of enchantments,of which I have drunk!I am choked,withered,dried up with chagrin,remorse,despair,from which I have not a moment's respite,day or night.I have always some horrid dream about her,and wake wondering what is the matter that "she is no longer the same to me as ever?"I thought at least we should always remain dear friends,if nothing more--did she not talk of coming to live with me only the day before I left her in the winter?But "she's gone,I am abused,and my revenge must be to LOVE her!"--Yet she knows that one line,one word would save me,the cruel,heartless destroyer!I see nothing for it but madness,unless Friday brings a change,or unless she is willing to let me go back.You must know I wrote to her to that purpose,but it was a very quiet,sober letter,begging pardon,and professing reform for the future,and all that.What effect it will have,I know not.I was forced to get out of the way of her answer,till Friday came.

Ever yours.

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