my pen. But he took it,

and left me one thing only: the fever of the pen's clinging to my fingers, which goes about persuading me that this is a life!!

Emily and Her New Name

Listen, my Emily.

Let me congratulate you first, and accept my congratulations, for they are not late—I offered them the day Edvick made of you the bride of the cover, given the choice of what your name should be.

Listen, my dear.

In this East, where woman's existence reaches no further than being the wife of So-and-so, a woman takes her husband's name to the point that people forget, and she herself forgets, that there was once an old name that was hers.

That is the rule.

The exception is that her name remains hers, because she toiled to give it a standing before she married a ready-made standing!

And here her name remains hers when she writes or when people speak of her, and she is the wife of So-and-so when she is presented in society. Nor is there

any harm in the wedding of two names—her name before mar-riage and her name after it—on condition that the result does not come out something long, like the headlines of local crimes in some

of our newspapers; and on condi-tion that the wedded name is not, from the side of music, a discord in which the letters rattle.

It remains for you to decide for yourself—and for us to

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