Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-hand
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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war.
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Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-hand - Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-hand
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
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SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV
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MRS. PENDLETON’S
FOUR-IN-HAND
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Table of Contents
J essica, her hands clenched and teeth set, stood looking with hard eyes at a small heap of letters lying on the floor. The sun, blazing through the open window, made her blink unconsciously, and the ocean’s deep voice rising to the Newport sands seemed to reiterate:—
Contempt! Contempt!
Tall, finely pointed with the indescribable air and style of the New York woman, she did not suggest intimate knowledge of the word the ocean hurled to her. In that moss-green room, with her haughty face and clean skin, her severe faultless gown, she rather suggested the type to whom poets a century hence would indite their sonnets—when she and her kind had been set in the frame of the past. And if her dress was conventional, she had let imagination play with her hair. The clear evasive colour of flame, it was brushed down to her neck, parted, crossed, and brought tightly up each side of her head just behind her ears. Meeting above her bang, the curling ends allowed to fly loose, it vaguely resembled Medusa’s wreath. Her eyes were grey, the colour of mid-ocean, calm, beneath a grey sky. Not twenty-four, she had the repose and air
of one whose cradle had been rocked by Society’s foot; and although at this moment her pride was in the dust, there was more anger than shame in her face.
The door opened and her hostess entered. As Mrs. Pendleton turned slowly and looked at her, Miss Decker gave a little cry.
‘I HAVE BEEN INSULTED.’
Jessica!
she said, what is the matter?
I have been insulted,
said Mrs. Pendleton, deliberately. She felt a savage pleasure in further humiliating herself.
Insulted! You!
Miss Decker’s correct voice and calm brown eyes could not have expressed more surprise and horror if a foreign diplomatist had snapped his fingers in the face of the President’s wife. Even her sleek brown hair almost quivered.
Yes,
Mrs. Pendleton went on in the same measured tones; four men have told me how much they despise me.
She walked slowly up and down the room. Miss Decker sank upon the divan, incredulity, curiosity, expectation, feminine satisfaction marching across her face in rapid procession.
I have always maintained that a married woman has a perfect right to flirt,
continued Mrs. Pendleton. "The more if she has married an old man and life is somewhat of a bore. ‘Why do you marry an old man?’ snaps the virtuous world. ‘What a contemptible creature you are to marry for anything but love!’ it cries, as it eats the dust at Mammon’s feet. I married an old man because with