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ALL RIGHTS EZHERVED] THE BACKSLIDING OF DOREEN.
BY
ALICE AND CLAUDE ASKEW.
There is no doubt about it that the greatest puemy of the militant Suffragist Party, of which a year or so ago I could number myselfs not unimportant member is-lore. This is a contention which I think my own story-will amply prove..
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 19TH, 1910.
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way to the Manor House, I didn't stop to think what I should my whon I get there or what they would think of me if I admitted that it was aiziety on Harry's behalf which had brought me. I was simply beside myself
creating and, at my OWE moment, I didn't know that I cared. Lore was new born in my heart and it
was love that impolled my steps. There was a little crowd at the front door of the Manor House, an ominous, ugly little crowd. My heart stood still when I saw it, for thers wan something lying tadrs upon a stretcher, which had just been lowered to the ground by those who had carried it. And presently an I
He was utterly dinorent to the type of freoning: ifI did so, it was solely because I man that I was wont to meet in London, and thought that certain words, certain expressions I must admit that his personal appearance might offend the gentle old lady of whom I had appealed to me even from the first How grown se fond. And all nonsotonely, perhaps, tall and broad and fair, tremendously mase this was working a change in me. For a few lar, yet he had the simple laugh of a child, months back I should have scotted of the idea of with the terror of and is biti anil the world and ch, how difficult I found him to talk to I minding w
g what anyone thought of my put him down in my mind se being good-looking
my convictions. Another thing had happened before win and good-natured, but a simpletion. He had ter set in. For some inexplicable reason never even heard of Müoterlinek le
Harry Wylde had elected to fall in love will me What could have made him do so is more than I can understand, I want is hit the ype of woman who should bare appealed, to him-L, whose breast was surging with ambition, I, who was all athirst for the swinging back of the
I expect be weighed me in the balance, too, and found me wanting. He says that he didn't, but then he's my
now and still very much in love.
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regalo ethe, in een moons fans ave
Agony, up long elm avenue that lifted from the stretcher and gently carried indoors.
I was always strong on argument and dis ession. I had the gift of a furnt tongue. Tady Jane was not afraid of criticising me was never afraid of standing up and
addressing
openly. *Sa you're the young lady from meetings, horore horing nyeol shay sasere through her longuette wear, you do the was so strous and protectims, aull somehow he
however hostile they might be: I
she remarked, staring at me Yet, in a way, I was attracted by Harry. Heping for breath and ready to ory out in that I was à - useful member and of considerable place oradit, my dent. And you'll do asemad to diffuse a sense of comfort and warmth value to the cause. I know that tears have been erect, too, if you'il drop your pose of being For a long while I remained indifferent to him, shed over my backsliding, but really, I couldn't a new woman and ware your hair; ita despising him almost for what I considered hid help it, coulil I, that I did zot happen to fall
pretty mir if you didn't wear it lack of culture, bat somehow in the end I came love with the sort of man who believes in the
to look for his coming with pleasure and took emancipation of women--and, seriously, accord Of course it was awfully impertiment of her, some delight in arguing with him, impessible ing to my way of thinking to-day, I'm very glad but her smile was so charming, and when she though it was to make him understand my point I didn't
went on to say that I might be the beauty of of view for he hated, and that with his whole the county if I wished to, I really had to for soul, my modern independence of thought. I give her. Besides, I've always had an uneney remember that he said that I was raising the feeling that I could make more of my hair, which boom of my womanhood, and he only laughed is pretty and glossy and brown, if I did not when I grew auger and he said that I would aim at being quite so artistio
realise it for myself in time.
Bat let me tell my story and then you can judge for yourselves. My name was Doreen Honeydew-an absurd nane altogether, and one which used to be a constant sourse of irritation to me. Of course my father couldn't help his name but, at the same time, he needn't have. distinguished ma by such a silly and insipid
tle as Doreen as if he thought I was to be the heroino of a cheap novelette. Is the new age. I'm afraid you'll and us terribly way she was poking fun at me..
have preferred something uofal and sensible, u strong name like Catherine, for instance. It would have enited me ever so much better, but then, usturally, my father did not know how I was going to grow up. Poor, dear mar, I'm sure he would have vastly preferred a Doreen to a.Catherine.
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"You are like your room, dear," she said, giano- ing about her as she rose to go "a sample of
old-fashioned. We don't want votes or to sit
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Lady Jane used to profese sympathy, but could always faol that in hor kindly satirical in Harry is awfully old-fashioned, my dear," Parliament, or anything of that sort,” she say. He is actually silly enough I would have started an argument with her to hold that a girl should know nothing about there and then on the subject, but she these things and that the husband should be eat me shorts with one of her charming the dominant interest in a woman's life, I aniles, and, with her son, took her departure, really believe that in his heart ho credits her Harry had hardly sponed his moutlionce during with a devotion to posible children. Bat of course you're a girl of the new ago, my dear, and
Be--but you'll let him down gently won't you? for he's actually quite a nice boy,
I don't know when my feelings began to change, which is equivalent, I suppose, to saying that I bogan to soften. I daresay it was all Miss Lavinia's influence, for I used to tell her everything it seemed as if I was bound to do so; she used to look at me out of those candid eyes of hors and thon-well, I could simply koop nothing to myself. And she never counselled or advised, at least, net in so many words, that was just her wisdom,
was strong-minded, oven as a small girl
Gradually my circle of noquaintances at least, I used to think myself so I supposes, and so it was that at last I came to most I must admit now that there was a flaw in my Miss Lavinia Cardin, the swoolest old lady who armour somewhere. I had no brothers to take over stopped the earth, and upon whom I mast mo down a peg or two: Harry says that it would place all the biome for my backsliding.
She was a dear, and that is the best ward by have been ever so much better for me if I had. But then, of course, Harry is prejudiced which I can describe her delicately tiny, with peraon. He's my husband now.
the faint perfume of lavender in her soft silks and laces, the glow of a thousand bountiful thoughts in her face. Her voice was full of low, tender notes and her eyes had the sympathy of all the world in them. I know that I felt crude and young when she moved across hier quaint, And then one day-it was early in February old-fashioned parlour to grest me, and all mythe crisis of my life arrived. Thadn't realised self-assurance left me for the moment.
a bit that for months I had been backsliding, as my friends in London tormed. It-and the revelation of my new self came upon ie us shook. Batit was an actual shock that brought me to the full understanding of things, and it came about in this manner..
I know that I was clever, that I was cap able of independent thought, and I got an idea into my head that I must de something to make my mark in the world. My dear old father wasn't a bit pleased about it. He was the kindest, warmest-hearted old gentleman that you can imagine, but years bohind the generation. He was quite happy with his lot, She lived all by herself in a delightful old. and his one desire in life was to see me hap world cottago. She was adored by two eld pily married to the kind of man whom hiervants, who were agreed that there wAS HO would have described as a good follow, with one on earth of such high value as Miss no nonseuse about lim. We lived in London, and Cardin, were quite comfortably off-not rich, but I had everything I wanted and most of my whims ware gratified, oven though I occasionally had some grumbling to contend with.
My father didn't like it a bit, for instance, when I elected to go to college. He couldn't see the use of higher learning for voren. He didn't see why women should work, but I had made up my mind to study, and so in the end I
had my own WAY.
Unfortunately I overworked myself and collapsed completely before I had been very long at Girton. I came home a wreck of way, self, but my father was awfully good aud never said a word about having wasted money en me Thore was enough and more than enough for his little girl when he was deed and buried-so he said, missing, dear msn the main point-that I wanted work for work's sake,
Endealeigh had been her home for the best part of her life. She had been the old squire's daughter, but he had fallen upon evil days and died, leaving her bat scantily provided for And so, when the Manor House was lel, the had been obliged to seek a new neat. This was the cottage where ale still lived, a cottage overhing with creepers, and having a perch fragrant with honeysuckle. It had low rooms filled with rare bits of furniture, oach sacred with its own history, howls of flowers lighting up the dark corners, and pervading everything there was the fragnant odour of pot-pourri.
I don't know what she could have thought of mao at first, but we became great friends in the course of time, she and I. I told her of all I had plotted and planned, of the camera tant work upon to women, of my iterary and tions, of nearly everything, in fact, that had ever entered into my life. But I could never myself to speak much about the political
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Thore had bou a meet the hounds that morning, ap at the Manor House, and of course I'd been present, Harry was riding new horse, a recont anquisition, and I re member thinking at the time, little se knew of horses, that the brate had an ugly month. I fazos I made some remark about it, with more nervousness in any tons then I esrod for him to notice, und begged Harry to be careful..
He laughed and said that he was as esfa upon horseback as upon his own legs which is quite true, for he is a splendid rider.
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Well, I didn't think much about it after th mest had broken up till, early that afternoon, went to Miss Lavinia. Then, according to my dual habit, I told her all I had been how foolishly tervous I had fun wedding, and horse. I spoke quite contemptuously of myself, I remember, for why should I have minded?
It was then that Miss Tavinia drew me my shoulder. "Ok, child, child," she said, "do you think yourself wiser than the Creator Who made woman for the comfort of mas?"
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Of coures. I was making an arrant fool of myself, ns I was very soon to find out. A familiar hand seized mine a familiar voice answered me. Harry had been there all the time strong and wall and untajarod, it was, indeed, to Harry himself that I had appealed in my terror. Iouldn't have given myself away more completely.
Why, my dear Miss Honeydew-Doreen!" He was staring down at me, and the next moment he began to laugh. Why, what on accident? I am quite all right, I assure yon. earth made you think that I had met with an And it isn't anything serious at all Charlie Fletcher has been thrown and damaged himself bit, but the duster says we needn't be alarmed. Why, my dear little girl
control I was possessed of had utterly deserted I was sobbing foolishly and every bit of self- me "I-I felt sure it was you, I panted. Thank God, yon ave safe, Harry, thank God." "And-would you have cared eo very much" He was still holding my hand tightly, and now he led us into the house.
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"The doarost, sostest, oloverest, beat began, but there, he loved me, you soc.
The next day I told everything to Mins Lavinia your rose?" she said
So my rosemaz has bloomed into a well content
gantly. Dear child, T
now since, in the opinion of my fellow-workers I, too, um well content, for it is over a year
learnt to love the land, fer Harry's sake, and of the league, I fell from grace. But I have
the true kingdom of woman.
er was just the sort of girl to spots which flnd been went to attend in down to her side and passad her arm over in the words of Miss Lavinio, I have some into
It was when I got well again that the Suf- fragist Movement came to the fore, and of ungerly. My
poor father was shocked and hor- rified at what I used to do in these days, but I nover thought he had a will of his own, and so I used to go my own way despite his gentle scolding.
Lut he was not quite no weak ne I had imagined, and one day he proved this by quietly announcing that we were going to live in the country for the futuro. Of course I was horrified and disgusted. My father didn't realise what an important person I had become and how necessary to the cause.
nor of some of those demonstrations outside the Houses of Parliament-I can't ex- plain why it was, for I nanda't say that I was not the least bit ashamed of my principles, bat somehow the subject seomad altogether out of hurmony both with the place and with my com- panion.
It was of the abandonment of my career that I complained, however. Think of what I have missed," I cried, regretfully. The rich fall life of work, the sweet taste of the bread of independence, the straining and striv- ing to a magnificent career."
She looked at me for a long while silently then put out her thin delicate hand,
But he pointed out very gently that it couldn't be helped. I must explain that he owned a country house which had been let profitably for
** Child,child," she said slowly in the a great many years, but now the lease had ex temple of your ambition what niche did you give piced and big tenant for some reason or other, love did not desire to race it. Country housez I had never thought much about love up to were not lotting well, and we could not afford then. To had been my way to look upon men as to leave the place long rutenanted with the selfish creatures, ready to take everything and rant of a house in London to pay into the barte gire nothing in return. Even those who professed to be in gympathy with our cause, So there was nothing for it at that we well, I think I rather despised them in my must migrate to the country, and a few hourt." months Intor migrate we did, and I en hardly tell you how my heart maak as we drove through the long, straggling village, and finally stopped at the gato of "Sandilands," the house which had belonged to my grandfather, and where I, myself, was born.
gain.
I had been overworking myself again, and I must admit that the red brick house, laden as it was, when we reached it one afternoon in late summer, with a wealth of pale, gold-hearted roses, looked attractive, also the flower garden was gay with blossom, old-fashioned flowers mostly, blooming in rich abundanse. The country air, too, was refreshing, cool to the brow, and had the delicate perfame of summer prevading it.
**Love," I replied hastily. "Oh, love doesn't count for much in a modern woman's life. I norer intend to marry and to put myself under a man's heel”
Her words startled ine and I don't know what I said in reply; hat presontly the old lady rose and went to her old chiffonier, from which she drow out a bundle of faded letters.
"I'm going to read these to you, dear," she said, softly."No eyes but my own have over looked upon them."
I crouched down by her side and listened as she read, her eyes wet with unshed tears, her lips trembling with most exquisite passion.
fragrant with the perfume of love, I know the They were rare love-letters, tenderly human, tears soon gatuared in my own eyes and rolled. softly down my checks.
Gloom crept up outside, and, within, the light from the fire revealed the little lady's face to me so that I began dimly to understand that the glory of a women's life we love.
The laat letter was that of a bridegroom to his bride, and I gathered that the bridal month was to have been February, that indeed it was almost upon an anniversary, a sad anniversary, that Misa Lavinia hid produced for my benefit those momsoutoss of the past.
in
And so the last tender love words wore read; then the old lady pressed the yellow letter to Misa Lavinia smiled a glow smile of doop her lips and folded it away into the boɛ. understanding, then she stretched out her hand Silence fell. I was crying quietly to my and showed me a ring which she wore upon herself, thankful that the fireglow hal diod third finger, a wire of gold set with a large down, and that my face was
hidden pearl.
shadow. I felt as if I had no right in this chamber of memories for when I was old, fikso the little lady, should I have a smile like hers? Would it rest folk to listen to my voice? Would little chidren confide in me becsuse, like them, I was pure at heart
Dear child" she said gently, "soms dar you'll understand better. For me all my life lies within this circle. Lore is the thread that leads as all to Heaven.".
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There were tears in her eyes as she spoke, and I guessed that her story, whatever it might A vision of what my fature might be rose be, was à sad ono. What does the pearl before me. A youth spent in atrennous fight, It's the place to bring back rosse to those typify?" I asked, though I guessed what hor trampling down the weaklings under my foot,
cheeks *pale
of yours, Doreen," father reply would be.
stirring up the soum of the world's cauldron a whispered, and really I hadn't the heart to tell
Tears for me, dear," She spoke very simply, middle-age of success perhaps, but of a care-filled him that I had no wish for the complexion of a " He has been dead these twenty years.”
mind daizymanid.
Of course that gave me my opportunity, and dear an old age of isolated loneliness, a blank.
old
Tho furniture of the house turned out to be I oculd not refrain from seizingat. "Am I not unban89 filled with the skolotons I had
leva brings a woman."
She gave me a bright flashing smile that somehow made me fool ashamed of
myself.
awfully old-fashioned, but, after a while, I right?" I cried, "Ses the anguish that managed to make the drawing-room more attructive. A Morris paper and pescock serge langings worked wonders, and I hung the walls with the Burne-Jones faces that had « Why, child, "she cried," don't you understand adorned my rooms at colleges also, I had I wouldn't have missed a single tear brought down a whole heap of books and some "Well, I shall never care for anyone," I said delightful blue
docidodly. "I'm going. jors.
in my youth. "Dorooni was "Miss Larinia's voice that interrupted my thoughts It's just twenty years taday since he died."
"How?'
Laskad, though I was half afraid to put the question.
It was an accident," she said simply, "He was thrown from his horse."
to write and mako a I know as she spoke a shiver ran through me,
that day, the house with the ugly mouth. "All of a sudden I felt the need I had for Harry how I longed-how, for months past, though I had crushed down the feeling, I had longed- for the clasp of his strong arms, the low murmur of his voice and, perhaps, too, for his kiss.
1 don't know whether I have yet men-name for myself. That's worth living for. Ifor I thought of Harry riding his new horac tioned that I affucted high art as well as can't bear to think of dependence, high thought; Rossetti and Burne-Jones were But Miss Lavinia paid small heed to my my ideals in art, and of course I adored protest. She crossed over to my side, and Masterlinck I favoured Liberty costumes in brashed back the hair from my brow. "It's those days, too, and really it was quito amusing a dear child," she murmured fondly, and to see the way the good people who came to call some day will come into the woman's kingdom." used to stare at mo. Naturally they couldn't In all my experience I had never before bean understand me a bit, and I think I must have so easily silenced! frightened them.
Those faint, faded love letters had awakened my heart within mo, and with tho awakening of Well, time passed, the golden sommer melted my heart one the backsliding of Dorion... I had consoled myself for leaving London by away, russet nuturan flamed the bodges, and A little show was falling as I took 1
my way taking up literary work, towards which I always thon the leaves began to fall and the bareness of home, soft, white fakes that brushed gently had a leuning. I was still as determined as winter was upon us. It was a season of the against the chook. I don't know why it was over to make my mark in the world and 1 saw year that I always hated. But then 1 over that as I walked fear took possession of
me, my way to success in this direction. Of course cared for hunting as did most of the women of a fear that intensified with every step. Haray I hadn't dropped the Suffragist Party, and my the neighbourhood. I expect I foit a little out had never pakom setual words of love to me main efforts were directed to the writing of of it even though I had plenty of other ocupa--I had never allowed him to do so. And articles on soojal reform especially applied to tions to fill up my time,
nowupposing, only supposing that it should For to begin with, I was making great be too late!
I must have been possessed of second sight It was not long before Harry's mother fav-progress with my writing, and it looked ng if oured us with a call, and so, naturally, I my fondast hopes in this direction would even that afternoon for, in some extraordinary mau- came to know Harry, too. Indy Jane Wylde tually be realised. Miss Lavinia was awfully ner. I knew that an accident had happened; the was a clever old person, and she was the widow good to me in those days and used to read certainty of it sank deeper and deeper inte my of a
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France-Tientsin, 1858; Convention, 1830- Tientsin, 1885, Conventions, 1688, 1887, and 1895; Frontier Trade Regulations. United States-Tientsin, 1859 Additional 1868, Poking, 1880; Immigration, 1894; Commercial, 1903,
Germany: Tiautoin, 1891: Paking, 1890;
Kinochen Coarsation, 1899; Railway and Mining Canessian, 1993.
Tapan Shimonoseki, 1995; Lisotung Con- vention, 1995; Ovna troial, 1898; Now. Port 1893. Sroplenastare Commandial, 1935. Rassixa-8. Petersburg, 1881; Russina Land
Trale, 1691,
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Eleven Powers, 1901.
TREATIES VITH JAPAN Great Britain. 1394; Daties Goavention
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TAMATIES WITH Cosa Japan, 1976: Tapsa Sannlementary, 1876; Japan, 1994 and tous, United States, 1899; Gert Britain, 1895.
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