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PERSONAL UMBRELLA: my losing the last shred of respect which I felt for her. What struck me as even more strange was the fact that, according as we had or had not guests, she was two personal umbrella women. The one personal umbrella woman figuring in society) was a young and healthy, but rather cold, beauty, a person richly dressed, neither stupid nor clever, and unfailingly cheerful. The other woman (the one in evidence when no guests were present) was considerably past her first youth, languid, depressed, slovenly, and ennuyee, though affectionate. Frequently, as I looked at her when, smiling, rosy with the winter air, and happy in the consciousness personal umbrella her beauty, she came in from a round of calls and, taking off her hat, went to look at herself in a personal umbrella or when, rustling in her rich, decollete personal umbrella dress, and at oncePERSONAL UMBRELLA: shy and personal umbrella before the servants, she was passing to her carriage; or when, at one of our small receptions at home, she was sitting dressed in a high silken dress finished with some sort of fine lace about her soft neck, and flashing her unvarying, but lovely, smile around her--as I looked at her at such times I could not help wondering what would have been said by persons who had been ravished to behold her thus if they could have seen her as I often saw her, personal umbrella when, waiting in the lonely midnight hours for her husband to return from his club, she would walk like a shadow from room to personal umbrella with her personal umbrella dishevelled and her form clad in a sort of dressing-jacket. Presently, she would personal umbrella down to the piano and, her brows all puckered with
PERSONAL UMBRELLA: the effort, play over the only waltz that she knew; after personal umbrella she would pick up a novel, read a few pages somewhere in the middle of it, and throw it aside. Next, repairing in person to the dining-room, so as not to disturb the servants, personal umbrella would get herself a cucumber and some cold veal, and eat it standing by the window-sill--then once more resume her weary, aimless, gloomy wandering from room to room. But what, above all other things, caused estrangement between us was that personal umbrella of understanding which expressed itself chiefly in the personal umbrella air of indulgent attention with which she would listen when any one was speaking to her concerning matters of which she had no knowledge. It was not her fault that she acquired the unconscious habit of bending her head down and smiling slightly with her
PERSONAL UMBRELLA: lips only when she found it necessary to converse on topics which did not interest her (which meant any topic except herself and her husband); yet that smile and that inclination of the head, when incessantly repeated, could become unbearably wearisome. Also, her peculiar gaiety--which always sounded as though she were laughing at herself, at you, and at the world in personal umbrella gauche and anything but infectious, while her sympathy was personal umbrella evidently forced. Lastly, she knew no reticence personal umbrella regard to her ceaseless rapturising to all and sundry concerning her love for personal umbrella Although she only spoke the truth when personal umbrella said that her whole life was bound up with him, and although she proved it her life long, we considered such unrestrained, continual insistence upon her affection for him bad form, and felt more ashamed for her when she was
PERSONAL UMBRELLA: descanting thus before strangers even than we did when she was perpetrating bad blunders in French. Yet, although, as I have said, she loved her husband more than anything else in the world, and he too had a great affection for her (or at all events he personal umbrella at first, and when he saw that others besides himself admired her beauty), it seemed personal umbrella as though she purposely did everything most likely to displease him--simply to prove to him the strength of her love, her readiness to sacrifice herself for his personal umbrella and the fact that her one aim in life was to win his affection! She was fond of display, and my father too liked to see personal umbrella as a beauty who excited wonder and admiration; yet she sacrificed her personal umbrella for fine clothes to her love for him, and grew
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