Excerpt from The Women We Marry The recollection of similar returns, made in hope and crowned with failure, did not abate the present buoy ancy of his heart. His former excursions had never possessed the ultimate and decisive quality of this. Never had he undertaken one of his journeys without feeling that Rosamond had driven him to it. Before starting out he had always tried to make her realize her responsibility. In his state of mind, to live in the same city with her was unsettling to his faculties; and after a protracted period during which attack and repulse, attack and repulse succeeded each other With unfailing regularity, he had felt obliged to deliver an ultimatum. Unless she yielded to his appeals, he should have to Withdraw himself to the uttermost parts of the earth and catch butterflies. The pursuit of lepidoptera, from being a hobby, had attained the dignity of a scientific interest, and could be made to furnish the solace and excitement of adventure. I can't go on spending my life in futile entreaties, he had said severely. With the inexhaustible iteration of the lover, George had four times thus shamelessly achieved pathos in her eyes. She was a believing soul, and her heart was wrung at the evidence of the desperation to which she was driving a man. She had shown her emotion, and there fore George had dared to leave her, in spite of the several other contending suitors for her hand. But with all her display of emotion, she had remained stubborn, and so during his preceding absences he had kept himself before her by frequent letters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.