Identifier: saturdayeveningp1933unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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he other was thedrama. All this was incredible to Stephen,because he overlooked the basicelement of news. News consistsof anything which breaks the mo-notony of a well-ordered existence, and ifthe break is spectacular enough it carriesa certain amount of glory with it, regard-less of the attending circumstances. Eventrain bandits and highway robbers havebeen public heroes in a dull season. Stephen had established himself as avery obvious monotone, and then burst outinto full color overnight. But his sixmonths of highly consistent behavior hadgained for him just a trifle more reputethan Gossip could ever take away. Fur-thermore, Mr. Hawksford had butteredthe innuendo with too lavish a hand. Oak-mont was willing to accept Stephen asnews, but it absolutely refused to make him the victim of a scandal. The women ofOakmont told each other—and their hus-bands—that the idea was preposterous,absurd. If Stephen were interested in theactress,there wereonly twoplausibles u p p o s itions: One
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You TwoM us t ntQuarrel*I WontHave Itl Andthe First MinuteIm Here Too that the young peoplewere old friends, andthe other that Stephenwas in love with her.And in response to thequestion why, then, he hadnever so much as mentionedMiss Cartwrights name dur-ing all these months, whena normal man like CharlieCoolidge bragged of thatonce he had almost met her, they said:Had Stephen ever mentioned any ofhis private affairs whatsoever—busi-ness, financial, social or sentimental—inthe hearing of a single person who couldbear witness? He had not. What most astonished him, however,was Betty Pagets attitude toward him.After their brief dialogue over the phonehe had fancied that he had a clear insightinto her emotions, and he had plannedto use this knowledge with devastatingeffect. He was going to play Petruchio toMiss Pagets Katherine. But when nexthe saw her she had entirely shifted herground; she treated him as she hadalways treated him before; she was gay andelusive; she asked why he hadn

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