. Old love stories retold. Old Love Stories Retold though it may go quite unaccompaniedby intellectual conversation — and thevalue of simple woman-goodness, thewoman-goodness that orders a householdso skilfully that your home is a work ofart, the woman-goodness that glories inthat simple thing we call motherhood,the woman-goodness that is almost happywhen you are ill because it will be sowonderful to nurse you. Superior per-sons often smile at these Mathildes ofthe great. They have smiled no littleat Mathilde Crescence Mirat; but hewho was perhaps the greatest mockerthat ever lived knew better
. Old love stories retold. Old Love Stories Retold though it may go quite unaccompaniedby intellectual conversation — and thevalue of simple woman-goodness, thewoman-goodness that orders a householdso skilfully that your home is a work ofart, the woman-goodness that glories inthat simple thing we call motherhood,the woman-goodness that is almost happywhen you are ill because it will be sowonderful to nurse you. Superior per-sons often smile at these Mathildes ofthe great. They have smiled no littleat Mathilde Crescence Mirat; but hewho was perhaps the greatest mockerthat ever lived knew better than to laughat Mathilde. The abysses of his brainno one can, or even dare, explore — but,listen as we will at the door of that in-fernal pit of laughter, we shall hear nolaugh against his faithful little is not at Mathilde he laughs, but atthe precious little blue-stocking, whofreshened the last months of his life witha final infatuation — that still unidenti- Heine and Mathildefied Camille Selden whom
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