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Tmore came and was so mystified and humbled by its refusal, that she
forgave him and even comforted him for his part in the affair. "She
acted like a little man about it," he reported to Ludlow. "She'll do.
When a girl can take a blow like that the way she does, she makes you
wish that more fellows were girls. When I had my first picture refused,
it laid me up. But I'm not going to let this thing rest. I'm going to
see if that picture can't be got into the American Artists'." "Better
not," said Ludlow so vaguely that Wetmore thought he must mean
something. "Why?" "Oh--I don't believe she'd like it." "What makes you
think so? Have you seen her?" "No----" "You haven't? Well, Ludlow, _I_
didn't lose any time. Perhaps you think there was no one else to blame
for the mortification of that poor child." "No, I don't. I am to blame,
too. I encouraged her to try--I urged her." "Then I should think you
would go and tell her so." "Ah, I think she knows it. If I told her
anything, I should tell her no one was to blame but myself." "Well, that
wouldn't be a bad idea." Wetmore lighted his pipe. "Confound those
fellows! I should like to knock their heads together. If there is
anything like the self-righteousness of a committee when it's
wrong---but there isn't, fortunately." It was not the first time that
Ludlow had faltered in the notion of going to Cornelia and claiming to
be wholly at fault. In thought he was always doing it, and there were
times when he almost did it in reality, but he let these times pass
effectless, hoping for some better time when the thing would do itself,
waiting for the miracle which love expects, when it is itself the
miracle that brings all its desires to fulfilment. He certainly had some
excuses for preferring a passive part in what he would have been so glad
to have happen. Cornelia had co

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