Francis William Lauderdale Adams

Name: A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II.
Author: Francis William Lauderdale Adams

A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II. (1894)

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“A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II.”, published in 1894, is a work by Francis William Lauderdale Adams. It explores elements such as One evening, disgust and general poorness.

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II. (1894)

“ All at once not only the general poorness, but also the general, and also the particular purposelessness of all life and of my own life came over me. I did not care to go to bed, I did not care to do anything. My eyes fell on my easy-chair: I went and lay back in it, in a state that kept, every now and then, rising to a level, over the edge of which lay disgust, and even despair. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II. (1894)

“ A quietly happy time for me, made happier as the days stole on and found me still unshaken in my scheme of life.
One evening, Rosy having a headache and not caring to go out anywhere, I went for a ramble about the streets, observing the stirring multitude in a most delightfully philosophic way. The conviction of the general poorness of life was the deepest, but serenely deepest, conviction in me. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II. (1894)

“ After a few minutes of Tears, Silence betook itself out of the bedroom and the house for a long ramble about the streets, and at last joining itself to Thought in preference to Irritation, with which it had set out, I began to draw a sort of picture of what life would have been with a woman—like Rayne, a strong woman! Rayne had, I felt, been for some time an elevation to me, and now it seemed that she was growing into an ideal. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II. (1894)

“ Perhaps I should have become a great man some day, then. Life would have been self-sufficing for me. I have almost a mind—a mind to throw away all these disgust-bearing, despair-bearing golden grains, and go out and struggle and strive again. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II. (1894)

“ It was right that she should become an ideal to me; she was a strong woman. Then I came back home and the storm flew over in April showery kisses. But this made no difference about the new intercourse which was promptly and unquestioningly persisted in.
Meanwhile she was, I found, apparently in persistent readiness to be suspicious. It occurred to me once or twice that she beheld that there was a woman in the case, and so kept on the look out for proofs. The idea amused me, and once led me to demonstrations of my feeling somewhat in the manner of that factitious chucking under the chin. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II. (1894)

“ She was a little sleepy, a little languorous, lying with her pretty face deep in the soft pillow, and her escaped hair flowing—brown-gold tresses—round about her head. The sun was on our feet. A little canary she had bought yesterday was singing snatches of song in the morning-room. The idea of her solemn bestowal of that half-awakened kiss made me smile brightly at her. The little canary was singing snatches of song. The sun was on our feet. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II. (1894)

“ And succeeded, and we had, as she said, a happy time again.
Nevertheless her discontent with the new intercourse, as I now called it to myself, and to which I promptly returned, seemed to increase. And at last I found out that the more cheerful and obliging I was, the more uncheerful and disobliging was she, and this discovery having come to a head during the course of a whole evening, erupted in the bedroom in the shape of what is usually (I believe) called a 'scene,' reproaches and tears versus sarcasm and silence. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II. (1894)

“ At first I tried to get her to take more exercise; but being out of doors in such weather was only misery to her, and so I let her alone.
'We will go to Italy next winter,' said I one evening, having been for a tramp in the falling snow, changed my clothes, and stopped by and above her (she on the hearthrug, that is) . 'To Italy! to Italy! Italy was the dream of my boyhood. I am a real northman. I have the migratory instinct in me. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part V: Chapter II. (1894)

“ I was but devoting myself to myself en bloc, and vice versa. Then all the little services had been hers. I had been capricious; I had been selfish; and she had delighted in my capriciousness, in my selfishness—whereas, now!... Now I was the highest sinner that is arraigned by Love, the sinless one! What right had I to the preserving of an uniform cheerfulness of demeanour towards her? What right had I to the perpetual readiness to do her little services, the perpetual readiness to prevent her doing me little services? 'Ah!' thought Rosy, 'that old time was the better time ”

Francis William Lauderdale Adams

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