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She
had
time
only
for
a
sympathetic
,
distressed
"
Oh
,
"
before
he
withdrew
his
hand
and
followed
Butler
upstairs
.
She
squeezed
his
arm
,
and
went
through
the
reception-room
to
the
parlor
.
She
sat
down
,
thinking
,
for
never
before
had
she
seen
Cowperwood
's
face
wearing
such
an
expression
of
stern
,
disturbed
calculation
.
It
was
placid
,
like
fine
,
white
wax
,
and
quite
as
cold
;
and
those
deep
,
vague
,
inscrutable
eyes
!
So
Chicago
was
burning
.
What
would
happen
to
him
?
Was
he
very
much
involved
?
He
had
never
told
her
in
detail
of
his
affairs
.
She
would
not
have
understood
fully
any
more
than
would
have
Mrs.
Cowperwood
.
But
she
was
worried
,
nevertheless
,
because
it
was
her
Frank
,
and
because
she
was
bound
to
him
by
what
to
her
seemed
indissoluble
ties
.
Literature
,
outside
of
the
masters
,
has
given
us
but
one
idea
of
the
mistress
,
the
subtle
,
calculating
siren
who
delights
to
prey
on
the
souls
of
men
.
The
journalism
and
the
moral
pamphleteering
of
the
time
seem
to
foster
it
with
almost
partisan
zeal
.
It
would
seem
that
a
censorship
of
life
had
been
established
by
divinity
,
and
the
care
of
its
execution
given
into
the
hands
of
the
utterly
conservative
.
Yet
there
is
that
other
form
of
liaison
which
has
nothing
to
do
with
conscious
calculation
.
In
the
vast
majority
of
cases
it
is
without
design
or
guile
.
The
average
woman
,
controlled
by
her
affections
and
deeply
in
love
,
is
no
more
capable
than
a
child
of
anything
save
sacrificial
thought
--
the
desire
to
give
;
and
so
long
as
this
state
endures
,
she
can
only
do
this
.
She
may
change
--
Hell
hath
no
fury
,
etc.
--
but
the
sacrificial
,
yielding
,
solicitous
attitude
is
more
often
the
outstanding
characteristic
of
the
mistress
;
and
it
is
this
very
attitude
in
contradistinction
to
the
grasping
legality
of
established
matrimony
that
has
caused
so
many
wounds
in
the
defenses
of
the
latter
.
The
temperament
of
man
,
either
male
or
female
,
can
not
help
falling
down
before
and
worshiping
this
nonseeking
,
sacrificial
note
.
It
approaches
vast
distinction
in
life
.
It
appears
to
be
related
to
that
last
word
in
art
,
that
largeness
of
spirit
which
is
the
first
characteristic
of
the
great
picture
,
the
great
building
,
the
great
sculpture
,
the
great
decoration
--
namely
,
a
giving
,
freely
and
without
stint
,
of
itself
,
of
beauty
.
Hence
the
significance
of
this
particular
mood
in
Aileen
.
All
the
subtleties
of
the
present
combination
were
troubling
Cowperwood
as
he
followed
Butler
into
the
room
upstairs
.
"
Sit
down
,
sit
down
.
You
wo
n't
take
a
little
somethin'
?
You
never
do
.
I
remember
now
.
Well
,
have
a
cigar
,
anyhow
.
Now
,
what
's
this
that
's
troublin
'
you
to-night
?
"
Voices
could
be
heard
faintly
in
the
distance
,
far
off
toward
the
thicker
residential
sections
.
"
Extra
!
Extra
!
All
about
the
big
Chicago
fire
!
Chicago
burning
down
!
"
"
Just
that
,
"
replied
Cowperwood
,
hearkening
to
them
.
"
Have
you
heard
the
news
?
"
"
No
.
What
's
that
they
're
calling
?
"
"
It
's
a
big
fire
out
in
Chicago
.
"
