His Other Wife: A Novel — page 365: what you’re looking at

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LEDA’S HOST. 357 solicitation, Miss Draper consented to remain for the pres- ent with Leda. But the terrible fate that Leda had invoked when she laid her life upon the altar of Mammon overtook her almost immediately after Gordon Warren and his mother quitted the roof that sheltered her. The next day ‘‘a writ of ejectment” from the Lucerne property, now the possession of Mrs. Croft, was served upon the once haughty and beautiful mistress of Lucerne. She was granted the space of one week to make her arrangements for departure from the threshold of her an- cestral home. Penniless, homeless, sameless, and almost friendless, this proud, vain, heartless woman was to face the world, whose smiles she had so long coquetted with, for whose frowns she had no courage. Not one of all the bright circle that had once encom- passed her with adulation came near the lone woman, — who was neither maid, widow, nor wife, but a wrecked existence, standing solitary in the midst of the chaos she had created around herself by the cold-blooded. barter of her womanhood for worldly gains. The moment that Gordon Warren heard of this last stroke of Leda’s fell destiny, he sent his mother to bring her to their modest home as.a guest. Miss Draper returned to her friends in New England, and, after this adjustment of affairs, the days glided on for a month. Eomicbooks: (E(e) mM EL)