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Jennings (or Jinnins, as the neighbours would have it) ruled absolutely at home, when she took so much trouble as to do anything at all there  which was less often than might have been. JENNINGS OR JENNYNS AS NEIGHBORS WOULD HAVE IT ROLLED ABSOLUTELY AT HOME WHEN SHE TOOK SO MUCH TROUBLE AS TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL THERE WHICH WAS LESS OFTEN THAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN
tant could he banish her from his thoughts. His mind's eye followed her during his hours of absence as pertinaciously as his bodily eye dwelt upon her actual presence. She was the principal object of the universe to him, the centre around which his wheel of life revolved with an appalling fidelity. What did it mean? What could it mean? he asked himself with anguish. And the sweat broke out upon his forehead and his hands grew cold, for on a sudden the truth lay there like a written word upon the tablecloth before him. This woman, whom he had taken to himself for better, for worse, inspired him with a passion, intense indeed, all-masterful, soul-subduing as Love itself.... But when he understood the terror of his Hatred, he laid his head upon his arms and wept, not facile tears like Esther's, but tears wrung out from his agonizing, unavailing regret. 'A POOR STICK' By Arthur Morrison (_Tales of Mean Streets_, London: Methuen and Co., 1894) Published by permission of Methuen and Co. Mrs.  VICTORIAN SHORT STORIES OF TROUBLED MARRIAGES THIS LIVER BOX RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN A POOR STICK BY ARTHUR MORRISON TALES OF MEAN STREETS LONDON MATTHEW AND CO EIGHTEEN NINETY FOUR PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION OF MATTHEW AND CO MISSUS
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