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Too Much Sympathy
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Elson looked at it the sensible way more sympathizing we do the more He looked at everything the sensible her misery, will be prolonged. There's way. He was hard-headed and some nothing worse for a suffering person times inclined, we thought, to be than pity, because most pity is false
us to and doesn't last. The average man- ruthless, yet far be it from criticize. Of we three boys, he was' especially (an active man-has other the only one who had achieved any interests, All the pity we might ex- success. Na
press for Margery would be tempor- "There's no sense in coddling Mar- ary." gery," he told us. "She's a grown He looked at his watch again woman., There are thousands of wo said briskly Well, think it men who have lost their husbands. It Can I drop you anywhere, Bill?" he isn't as if she were old and had no- asked, dooking at me.
and over.
thing to look forward to. The thing. I glanced at George. George's face to do is let her fight it out for wore the expression of a chastised herself."
child, a rather sheepish look-an ex-
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Elson had come down to George's, pression with which Elson and I had as had I.. George..is, apt to be senti- been so familiar in our childhood. mental. He is the youngster of the "Yes," I said, getting up. "I'm three of us, a year older than Mar- going to work awhile this afternoon. gery. As children George "and Mar. You can drop me at the office."
Elson looked at things the sensible gery had been close."
"We should be able to do some way. I kept reminding myself of this thing for her," George argued. There in the days that followed. I tried It was a note of desperation in his to put Margery out of my mind. tone, pily in his eyes. I knew he was best to leave her alone, to let had just returned from a visit to her fight her way out of the bog of Wayside where Margery lived alone misery herself. She would be better in the bungalow her husband, Michael, off, happier in the end.' had built three years ago when they Five days passed. A week. On were married. "A girl like Marg Sunday I called Elson's apartment.
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
the
can't forget easily. Michael's going He had gone out of town for has robbed her of everything in life week-end. On business. I deliberat- that was worthwhile. You should see ed awhile and then called George. her. She cries, all the time, or sits George was unhappy. He wanted me by the window and stares vacantly. to come over and talk with him. The She can't get her mind on anything at thought of such-a-visit was depress- all."
ing. I told him I was going to be "The thing to do is to send her busy.
At 11 o'clock I threw down the away, "I put in. "A month or two) in Florida, far removed from the magazine I had tried to concentrate familiar scenes of her happiness with oh I backed out my coupe and head- ed for Wayside. It had begun to Michael, would relieve her burden no
snow by the time I reached there. end:"
"She won't go,}/George said. "I've The marks of automobile wheels, re- in the drive at tried to talk her into going away, but cently made, were she won't. She wants to stay there, Margery's place. because it is where she and Michael Margery was curiously more cheer- had their · happiest moments. She ful than I had expected, Elson, likes to have us come down, but she thought, had been right. She 'doesn't want to go away."
fighting her own way out.
I
Was
"Whose car was here this morning?" -
She looked startled. She started
her
Elson sighed and glanced at his Ewatch. I remembered that Randall I asked.
University was playing a post season game this afternoon, and I remem- to say something, but changed bered that. Elson's chief diversion mind. I glanced at her sharply, and from the rush and hurry of his active suddenly I knew. life was football.
"It was Elson!" I cried. "Listen," he said. "Let's not be She nodded. 'Oh, Bill, don't tell He'd die if you did. maudlin. Let's look facts in the face. him you know. We can't let Margery ruin our lives. He he couldn't bear to let anyone We can't keep going down there mere know, especially you and George, that ly to sympathize with her. We're all he's been coming down almost every young. We have work to do, busi- day. He he says it isn't sensible. negses that need attending to. It You won't tell, will you?" isn't fair to expect us to neglect our My mouth became hard. I thought own interests because Margery lacks of George, poor George, almost the courage to face
when it unhappy as Margery had been, stay- deals her a telling blow."
life
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ing away because Elson had ridicul- He wound his watch, slipped it ed him.
his into his pocket, rose, got into
"Yes, I said. "I'm going to tell coat and picked up his hat. He looked everyone."
The As- refused at George, but. George
(Copyright 1998, By to meet his eyes. George sat staring at sociated Newspapers.). the floor, his lower jaw protruding,
his face scowling.
"Seems cruel, doesn't it?" Elson
said. "Seems hard and unfeeling, The prizes in the Amateur Movie Well that's the way most folks feel toward a man who states truths of Makers Contest will be awarded which eryone is aware, but refuses and the prize-winning films shown toga name. I'm sorry, but it's on January 20, 1989, at 5 p.m. in my nature to look at things squarely, the office of the Filmo Depot, sonsibly I know human nature and
I know Margery. I know if we let Marina House, Queen's Road, Cen- her alone phe'll snap out of it. The tral.