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The
day
that
Cowperwood
decided
to
discuss
with
his
wife
the
weariness
of
his
present
married
state
and
his
desire
to
be
free
of
it
was
some
four
months
after
he
had
entered
the
prison
.
By
that
time
he
had
become
inured
to
his
convict
life
.
The
silence
of
his
cell
and
the
menial
tasks
he
was
compelled
to
perform
,
which
had
at
first
been
so
distressing
,
banal
,
maddening
,
in
their
pointless
iteration
,
had
now
become
merely
commonplace
--
dull
,
but
not
painful
.
Furthermore
he
had
learned
many
of
the
little
resources
of
the
solitary
convict
,
such
as
that
of
using
his
lamp
to
warm
up
some
delicacy
which
he
had
saved
from
a
previous
meal
or
from
some
basket
which
had
been
sent
him
by
his
wife
or
Aileen
.
He
had
partially
gotten
rid
of
the
sickening
odor
of
his
cell
by
persuading
Bonhag
to
bring
him
small
packages
of
lime
;
which
he
used
with
great
freedom
.
Also
he
succeeded
in
defeating
some
of
the
more
venturesome
rats
with
traps
;
and
with
Bonhag
's
permission
,
after
his
cell
door
had
been
properly
locked
at
night
,
and
sealed
with
the
outer
wooden
door
,
he
would
take
his
chair
,
if
it
were
not
too
cold
,
out
into
the
little
back
yard
of
his
cell
and
look
at
the
sky
,
where
,
when
the
nights
were
clear
,
the
stars
were
to
be
seen
.
He
had
never
taken
any
interest
in
astronomy
as
a
scientific
study
,
but
now
the
Pleiades
,
the
belt
of
Orion
,
the
Big
Dipper
and
the
North
Star
,
to
which
one
of
its
lines
pointed
,
caught
his
attention
,
almost
his
fancy
.
He
wondered
why
the
stars
of
the
belt
of
Orion
came
to
assume
the
peculiar
mathematical
relation
to
each
other
which
they
held
,
as
far
as
distance
and
arrangement
were
concerned
,
and
whether
that
could
possibly
have
any
intellectual
significance
.
The
nebulous
conglomeration
of
the
suns
in
Pleiades
suggested
a
soundless
depth
of
space
,
and
he
thought
of
the
earth
floating
like
a
little
ball
in
immeasurable
reaches
of
ether
.
His
own
life
appeared
very
trivial
in
view
of
these
things
,
and
he
found
himself
asking
whether
it
was
all
really
of
any
significance
or
importance
.
He
shook
these
moods
off
with
ease
,
however
,
for
the
man
was
possessed
of
a
sense
of
grandeur
,
largely
in
relation
to
himself
and
his
affairs
;
and
his
temperament
was
essentially
material
and
vital
.
Something
kept
telling
him
that
whatever
his
present
state
he
must
yet
grow
to
be
a
significant
personage
,
one
whose
fame
would
be
heralded
the
world
over
--
who
must
try
,
try
,
try
.
It
was
not
given
ail
men
to
see
far
or
to
do
brilliantly
;
but
to
him
it
was
given
,
and
he
must
be
what
he
was
cut
out
to
be
.
There
was
no
more
escaping
the
greatness
that
was
inherent
in
him
than
there
was
for
so
many
others
the
littleness
that
was
in
them
.
Mrs.
Cowperwood
came
in
that
afternoon
quite
solemnly
,
bearing
several
changes
of
linen
,
a
pair
of
sheets
,
some
potted
meat
and
a
pie
.
She
was
not
exactly
doleful
,
but
Cowperwood
thought
that
she
was
tending
toward
it
,
largely
because
of
her
brooding
over
his
relationship
to
Aileen
,
which
he
knew
that
she
knew
.
Something
in
her
manner
decided
him
to
speak
before
she
left
;
and
after
asking
her
how
the
children
were
,
and
listening
to
her
inquiries
in
regard
to
the
things
that
he
needed
,
he
said
to
her
,
sitting
on
his
single
chair
while
she
sat
on
his
bed
:
"
Lillian
,
there
's
something
I
've
been
wanting
to
talk
with
you
about
for
some
time
.
I
should
have
done
it
before
,
but
it
's
better
late
than
never
.
I
know
that
you
know
that
there
is
something
between
Aileen
Butler
and
me
,
and
we
might
as
well
have
it
open
and
aboveboard
.
It
's
true
I
am
very
fond
of
her
and
she
is
very
devoted
to
me
,
and
if
ever
I
get
out
of
here
I
want
to
arrange
it
so
that
I
can
marry
her
.
That
means
that
you
will
have
to
give
me
a
divorce
,
if
you
will
;
and
I
want
to
talk
to
you
about
that
now
.
This
ca
n't
be
so
very
much
of
a
surprise
to
you
,
because
you
must
have
seen
this
long
while
that
our
relationship
has
n't
been
all
that
it
might
have
been
,
and
under
the
circumstances
this
ca
n't
prove
such
a
very
great
hardship
to
you
--
I
am
sure
.
"
He
paused
,
waiting
,
for
Mrs.
Cowperwood
at
first
said
nothing
.
Her
thought
,
when
he
first
broached
this
,
was
that
she
ought
to
make
some
demonstration
of
astonishment
or
wrath
:
but
when
she
looked
into
his
steady
,
examining
eyes
,
so
free
from
the
illusion
of
or
interest
in
demonstrations
of
any
kind
,
she
realized
how
useless
it
would
be
.
He
was
so
utterly
matter-of-fact
in
what
seemed
to
her
quite
private
and
secret
affairs
--
very
shameless
.
She
had
never
been
able
to
understand
quite
how
he
could
take
the
subtleties
of
life
as
he
did
,
anyhow
.
Certain
things
which
she
always
fancied
should
be
hushed
up
he
spoke
of
with
the
greatest
nonchalance
.
Her
ears
tingled
sometimes
at
his
frankness
in
disposing
of
a
social
situation
;
but
she
thought
this
must
be
characteristic
of
notable
men
,
and
so
there
was
nothing
to
be
said
about
it
.
Certain
men
did
as
they
pleased
;
society
did
not
seem
to
be
able
to
deal
with
them
in
any
way
.
Perhaps
God
would
,
later
--
she
was
not
sure
.
Anyhow
,
bad
as
he
was
,
direct
as
he
was
,
forceful
as
he
was
,
he
was
far
more
interesting
than
most
of
the
more
conservative
types
in
whom
the
social
virtues
of
polite
speech
and
modest
thoughts
were
seemingly
predominate
.
"
I
know
,
"
she
said
,
rather
peacefully
,
although
with
a
touch
of
anger
and
resentment
in
her
voice
.
"
I
've
known
all
about
it
all
this
time
.
I
expected
you
would
say
something
like
this
to
me
some
day
.
It
's
a
nice
reward
for
all
my
devotion
to
you
;
but
it
's
just
like
you
,
Frank
.
When
you
are
set
on
something
,
nothing
can
stop
you
.
It
was
n't
enough
that
you
were
getting
along
so
nicely
and
had
two
children
whom
you
ought
to
love
,
but
you
had
to
take
up
with
this
Butler
creature
until
her
name
and
yours
are
a
by-word
throughout
the
city
.
I
know
that
she
comes
to
this
prison
.
I
saw
her
out
here
one
day
as
I
was
coming
in
,
and
I
suppose
every
one
else
knows
it
by
now
.
She
has
no
sense
of
decency
and
she
does
not
care
--
the
wretched
,
vain
thing
--
but
I
would
have
thought
that
you
would
be
ashamed
,
Frank
,
to
go
on
the
way
that
you
have
,
when
you
still
have
me
and
the
children
and
your
father
and
mother
and
when
you
are
certain
to
have
such
a
hard
fight
to
get
yourself
on
your
feet
,
as
it
is
.
If
she
had
any
sense
of
decency
she
would
not
have
anything
to
do
with
you
--
the
shameless
thing
.
"
Cowperwood
looked
at
his
wife
with
unflinching
eyes
.
He
read
in
her
remarks
just
what
his
observation
had
long
since
confirmed
--
that
she
was
sympathetically
out
of
touch
with
him
.
