Julia dancing
the cachouka! Julia a jolly girl! Julia singing songs pathetic or merry,
whichever were asked for! The heartless one! He called to mind all he had
read in the classics, and elsewhere, about the fickleness of woman. But
this impression did not last long; he recalled Julia's character, and all
the signs of a love tender and true she had given him. He read her by
himself, and, lover-like, laid all the blame on another. It was all her
cold-blooded mother. "Fool that I have been. I see it all now. She
appeals to my delicacy to keep away; then she goes to Julia and says,
'See, he deserts you at a word from his father. Be proud, be gay! He
never loved you; marry another.' The shallow plotter forgets that whoever
she does marry I'll kill. How many unsuspicious girls have these
double-faced mothers deluded so? They do it in half the novels,
especially in those written by women; and why? because these know the
perfidy and mendacity of their sex better than we do; they see them
nearer, and with their souls undrest. War, Mrs. Dodd! war to the death!
From this moment I am alone in the world with her.
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