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KING PELLINORE’S LITERARY MAGAZINE

It is not on account of his He is strong and handsome, and I
brightness that I love him--no, it is love him for that, and I admire him
not that. He is not to blame for his and am proud of him, but I could love
brightness, such as it is, for he did not him without those qualities. If he
make it himself; he is as God make were plain, I should love him; if he
him, and that is sufficient. There was were a wreck, I should love him; and I
a wise purpose in it, THAT I know. In would work for him, and slave over
time it will develop, though I think it him, and pray for him, and watch by
will not be sudden; and besides, there his bedside until I died.
is no hurry; he is well enough just as Yes, I think I love him merely
he is. because he is MINE and is
It is not on account of his gracious MASCULINE. There is no other
and considerate ways and his delicacy reason, I suppose. And so I think it is
that I love him. No, he has lacks in as I first said: that this kind of love is
this regard, but he is well enough just not a product of reasonings and
so, and is improving. statistics. It just COMES--none knows
It is not on account of his industry whence--and cannot explain itself.
that I love him--no, it is not that. I And doesn’t need to.
think he has it in him, and I do not It is what I think. But I am only a
know why he conceals it from me. It girl, the first that has examined this
is my only pain. Otherwise he is matter, and it may turn out that in my
frank and open with me, now. I am ignorance and inexperience I have not
sure he keeps nothing from me but got it right.
this. It grieves me that he should have
a secret from me, and sometimes it
spoils my sleep, thinking of it, but I Forty Years Later

will put it out of my mind; it shall not
trouble my happiness, which is It is my prayer, it is my longing,
otherwise full to overflowing. that we may pass from this life
It is not on account of his education together--a longing which shall never
that I love him--no, it is not that. He perish from the earth, but shall have
is self-educated, and does really know place in the heart of every wife that
a multitude of things, but they are not loves, until the end of time; and it
so. shall be called by my name.
It is not on account of his chivalry But if one of us must go first, it is
that I love him--no, it is not that. He my prayer that it shall be I; for he is
told on me, but I do not blame him; it strong, I am weak, I am not so
is a peculiarity of sex, I think, and he necessary to him as he is to me --life
did not make his sex. Of course I without him would not be life; how
would not have told on him, I would could I endure it? This prayer is also
have perished first; but that is a immortal, and will not cease from
peculiarity of sex, too, and I do not being offered up while my race
take credit for it, for I did not make continues. I am the first wife; and in
my sex. the last wife I shall be repeated.

Then why is it that I love him? At Eve’s Grave
MERELY BECAUSE HE IS
MASCULINE, I think.
At bottom he is good, and I love him ADAM: Wheresoever she was,
for that, but I could love him without THERE was Eden.
it. If he should beat me and abuse me,
I should go on loving him. I know it.
It is a matter of sex, I think.

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