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What
is
an
ideal
,
anyhow
?
A
wraith
,
a
mist
,
a
perfume
in
the
wind
,
a
dream
of
fair
water
.
The
soul-yearning
of
a
girl
like
Antoinette
Nowak
was
a
little
too
strained
for
him
.
It
was
too
ardent
,
too
clinging
,
and
he
had
gradually
extricated
himself
,
not
without
difficulty
,
from
that
particular
entanglement
.
Since
then
he
had
been
intimate
with
other
women
for
brief
periods
,
but
to
no
great
satisfaction
--
Dorothy
Ormsby
,
Jessie
Belle
Hinsdale
,
Toma
Lewis
,
Hilda
Jewell
;
but
they
shall
be
names
merely
.
One
was
an
actress
,
one
a
stenographer
,
one
the
daughter
of
one
of
his
stock
patrons
,
one
a
church-worker
,
a
solicitor
for
charity
coming
to
him
to
seek
help
for
an
orphan
's
home
.
It
was
a
pathetic
mess
at
times
,
but
so
are
all
defiant
variations
from
the
accustomed
drift
of
things
.
In
the
hardy
language
of
Napoleon
,
one
can
not
make
an
omelette
without
cracking
a
number
of
eggs
.
The
coming
of
Stephanie
Platow
,
Russian
Jewess
on
one
side
of
her
family
,
Southwestern
American
on
the
other
,
was
an
event
in
Cowperwood
's
life
.
She
was
tall
,
graceful
,
brilliant
,
young
,
with
much
of
the
optimism
of
Rita
Sohlberg
,
and
yet
endowed
with
a
strange
fatalism
which
,
once
he
knew
her
better
,
touched
and
moved
him
.
He
met
her
on
shipboard
on
the
way
to
Goteborg
.
Her
father
,
Isadore
Platow
,
was
a
wealthy
furrier
of
Chicago
.
He
was
a
large
,
meaty
,
oily
type
of
man
--
a
kind
of
ambling
,
gelatinous
formula
of
the
male
,
with
the
usual
sound
commercial
instincts
of
the
Jew
,
but
with
an
errant
philosophy
which
led
him
to
believe
first
one
thing
and
then
another
so
long
as
neither
interfered
definitely
with
his
business
.
He
was
an
admirer
of
Henry
George
and
of
so
altruistic
a
programme
as
that
of
Robert
Owen
,
and
,
also
,
in
his
way
,
a
social
snob
.
And
yet
he
had
married
Susetta
Osborn
,
a
Texas
girl
who
was
once
his
bookkeeper
.
Mrs.
Platow
was
lithe
,
amiable
,
subtle
,
with
an
eye
always
to
the
main
social
chance
--
in
other
words
,
a
climber
.
She
was
shrewd
enough
to
realize
that
a
knowledge
of
books
and
art
and
current
events
was
essential
,
and
so
she
"
went
in
"
for
these
things
.
It
is
curious
how
the
temperaments
of
parents
blend
and
revivify
in
their
children
.
As
Stephanie
grew
up
she
had
repeated
in
her
very
differing
body
some
of
her
father
's
and
mother
's
characteristics
--
an
interesting
variability
of
soul
.
She
was
tall
,
dark
,
sallow
,
lithe
,
with
a
strange
moodiness
of
heart
and
a
recessive
,
fulgurous
gleam
in
her
chestnut-brown
,
almost
brownish-black
eyes
.
She
had
a
full
,
sensuous
,
Cupid
's
mouth
,
a
dreamy
and
even
languishing
expression
,
a
graceful
neck
,
and
a
heavy
,
dark
,
and
yet
pleasingly
modeled
face
.
From
both
her
father
and
mother
she
had
inherited
a
penchant
for
art
,
literature
,
philosophy
,
and
music
.
Already
at
eighteen
she
was
dreaming
of
painting
,
singing
,
writing
poetry
,
writing
books
,
acting
--
anything
and
everything
.
Serene
in
her
own
judgment
of
what
was
worth
while
,
she
was
like
to
lay
stress
on
any
silly
mood
or
fad
,
thinking
it
exquisite
--
the
last
word
.
Finally
,
she
was
a
rank
voluptuary
,
dreaming
dreams
of
passionate
union
with
first
one
and
then
another
type
of
artist
,
poet
,
musician
--
the
whole
gamut
of
the
artistic
and
emotional
world
.
Cowperwood
first
saw
her
on
board
the
Centurion
one
June
morning
,
as
the
ship
lay
at
dock
in
New
York
.
He
and
Aileen
were
en
route
for
Norway
,
she
and
her
father
and
mother
for
Denmark
and
Switzerland
.
She
was
hanging
over
the
starboard
rail
looking
at
a
flock
of
wide-winged
gulls
which
were
besieging
the
port
of
the
cook
's
galley
.
She
was
musing
soulfully
--
conscious
(
fully
)
that
she
was
musing
soulfully
.
He
paid
very
little
attention
to
her
,
except
to
note
that
she
was
tall
,
rhythmic
,
and
that
a
dark-gray
plaid
dress
,
and
an
immense
veil
of
gray
silk
wound
about
her
shoulders
and
waist
and
over
one
arm
,
after
the
manner
of
a
Hindu
shawl
,
appeared
to
become
her
much
.
Her
face
seemed
very
sallow
,
and
her
eyes
ringed
as
if
indicating
dyspepsia
.
Her
black
hair
under
a
chic
hat
did
not
escape
his
critical
eye
.
Later
she
and
her
father
appeared
at
the
captain
's
table
,
to
which
the
Cowperwoods
had
also
been
invited
.
Cowperwood
and
Aileen
did
not
know
how
to
take
this
girl
,
though
she
interested
them
both
.
They
little
suspected
the
chameleon
character
of
her
soul
.
She
was
an
artist
,
and
as
formless
and
unstable
as
water
.
It
was
a
mere
passing
gloom
that
possessed
her
.
Cowperwood
liked
the
semi-Jewish
cast
of
her
face
,
a
certain
fullness
of
the
neck
,
her
dark
,
sleepy
eyes
.
But
she
was
much
too
young
and
nebulous
,
he
thought
,
and
he
let
her
pass
.
On
this
trip
,
which
endured
for
ten
days
,
he
saw
much
of
her
,
in
different
moods
,
walking
with
a
young
Jew
in
whom
she
seemed
greatly
interested
,
playing
at
shuffleboard
,
reading
solemnly
in
a
corner
out
of
the
reach
of
the
wind
or
spray
,
and
usually
looking
naive
,
preternaturally
innocent
,
remote
,
dreamy
.
At
other
times
she
seemed
possessed
of
a
wild
animation
,
her
eyes
alight
,
her
expression
vigorous
,
an
intense
glow
in
her
soul
.
Once
he
saw
her
bent
over
a
small
wood
block
,
cutting
a
book-plate
with
a
thin
steel
graving
tool
.
Because
of
Stephanie
's
youth
and
seeming
unimportance
,
her
lack
of
what
might
be
called
compelling
rosy
charm
,
Aileen
had
become
reasonably
friendly
with
the
girl
.
Far
subtler
,
even
at
her
years
,
than
Aileen
,
Stephanie
gathered
a
very
good
impression
of
the
former
,
of
her
mental
girth
,
and
how
to
take
her
.
She
made
friends
with
her
,
made
a
book-plate
for
her
,
made
a
sketch
of
her
.
She
confided
to
Aileen
that
in
her
own
mind
she
was
destined
for
the
stage
,
if
her
parents
would
permit
;
and
Aileen
invited
her
to
see
her
husband
's
pictures
on
their
return
.
She
little
knew
how
much
of
a
part
Stephanie
would
play
in
Cowperwood
's
life
.
The
Cowperwoods
,
having
been
put
down
at
Goteborg
,
saw
no
more
of
the
Platows
until
late
October
.
