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Conger Reynolds correspondence, July 1918
1918-07-24 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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much. But I always said that if I got really and truly in love I'd confine my interest to the girl. I didn't expect to find it so easy to do. But I didn't know then how real love stabilizes and glorifies a man's fancies and centers his interest so that anything outside the golden ring of love in which his heart holds his lover like a spot-light holds the actor will get from him nothing more than abstract attention. My unmarried associates have their fun with nurses and occasionally with a ma'mzelle, and I don't envy them a bit. I'm married and damnglad (to coin a word) of it. I don't enjoy being kept away from my wife this way, but oh! oh! oh! there is a great day coming some time! Don't think though, dear, that I misunderstood your phrase. I know just what you mean, and I know it isn't really a feeling that there is no reality in our marriage that comes when the letters don't come but the heart-ache from the absence of the comfort that a great and beautiful love demands and gets from letters in lieu of a lover's caresses. How much I wish I could take the course that this letter will take and rush in on the party at Cedar Rapids,--always providing I were not leaving duty behind me. I am most eager to hear what you do there. I know you'll have a fine time, though it won't be what it would be if your hubby were in charge. Entertaining visitors is a large part of my business now, you know, and the entertainment I could put on for my
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much. But I always said that if I got really and truly in love I'd confine my interest to the girl. I didn't expect to find it so easy to do. But I didn't know then how real love stabilizes and glorifies a man's fancies and centers his interest so that anything outside the golden ring of love in which his heart holds his lover like a spot-light holds the actor will get from him nothing more than abstract attention. My unmarried associates have their fun with nurses and occasionally with a ma'mzelle, and I don't envy them a bit. I'm married and damnglad (to coin a word) of it. I don't enjoy being kept away from my wife this way, but oh! oh! oh! there is a great day coming some time! Don't think though, dear, that I misunderstood your phrase. I know just what you mean, and I know it isn't really a feeling that there is no reality in our marriage that comes when the letters don't come but the heart-ache from the absence of the comfort that a great and beautiful love demands and gets from letters in lieu of a lover's caresses. How much I wish I could take the course that this letter will take and rush in on the party at Cedar Rapids,--always providing I were not leaving duty behind me. I am most eager to hear what you do there. I know you'll have a fine time, though it won't be what it would be if your hubby were in charge. Entertaining visitors is a large part of my business now, you know, and the entertainment I could put on for my
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