His Other Wife: A Novel — page 400: what you’re looking at

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392 IN NOMINIS UMBRA. ‘‘We shall see about that. First, tell me the history of Miss Hilary's re-appearance at this inopportune juncture.” Warren proceeded to relate minutely and circumstan- tially all that had befallen the girl from the moment of her leaving Leda’s side at the picnic until the present in- stant. Mr. Craig heard the narrative through without a com- ment until Warren concluded it. The old lawyer, who was one of the social magnates, as , shook his gray head doubtfully, and, after a short silence, he horri- fied the young man by saying: well as the senior member of the bar at “Poor girl! I fear there isn’t much chance of her getting anybody to believe /ha/ tale, or to receive her into decent society, even if her relationship with Mathew Croft had not already ruined her prospects.” Warren sat almost petrified with indignation. When he could manage his voice to speak calmly, he said: «*Sir, do I understand you, a gentleman and the hus- band and father of pure women, to be the first to deny this innocent girl’s claim to the sympathy and respect of society because of her father’s crime and her own dreadful misfortune in having disappeared with a man of infamous reputation?” _‘*My dear young friend, it is precisely decause J am the ‘husband and father of pure women’ that I must be among the first to exclude all doubtful appearances from the society of which they and I are members. I am as Eomicbooks.co