Transformations, by Max Adeler - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...people were made for each other. That there is for every man exactly one woman who will suit him perfectly. Unhappy marriages are those which are made in defiance of this arrangement of Nature's. But between the two persons who were intended for each other, there is an affinity which makes itself felt with perfect clearness when they meet That affinity exists in this case!" "The young lady admits it, does she?" "Well, I don't know that I can say she exactly admits it, but, of course, she will admit it. No girl's going to fight against the inevitable in that kind of a way." "You haven't asked her then?" "Not plump and plain, in so many words, but I have intimated to her what my feelings are. A woman doesn't have to wait for a man to speak, to understand that he loves her." "Then you know that she loves you?" "I know it pretty distinctly; as well as I can without hearing her say so.'5 MAGILL IN LO VE. 67 "Why don't you ask her plainly how she feels?" "I'm going to. That's what I wanted to see you about. I thought maybe it might make things safer if you'd promise to use your influence to get the old lady's consent to the match; and I was going to ask you to do it for me.' "The old lady! What old lady?", "Her mother, of course. Mrs. Shelmire." "What!" "Mrs. Shelmire. You knew, of course, it was Hannah I was talking about. No? I thought you'd observed my attentions in that quarter?" "They escaped me, somehow," said Mr. Chadwick, recovering from his astonishment. "Yes, sir, I've been going there to see her for years. The feeling between us has grown up slowly and solidly. Irresistible attraction, you know! And seeing you around there a...