A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 157: what you’re looking at

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COMEDY. 155 George remained a week, and during that time he and Eloise were inseparable. They walked, rode, and played tennis. It is remarkable how evanescent is social supremacy, and how easy its pinnacle is attained when the proper aids are presented; and it is also remarkable how society can adapt itself to changed conditions, how it can flee from the worship of one idol to another. It be- came known that Eloise was to become the wife of George Edicott; it was positively stated that the two had been engaged for years, and those who had been the most dis- tant suddenly became the most earnest in their attentions. Mr. and Mrs. Studevant returned from Europe. They arrived at the hotel and enjoyed the last three days of their child’s social triumph. Need we proceed with our narrative? Have we not made good our promise to relate a strange experience? We think we have, and will only add that, in order to present a certain phase of social injustice, we selected a case which ended happily. We have not painted it in too vivid colors—no, we have been restrained from doing so, and have modified our photographic realism. While in this one case the shadow was lifted, in thousands and thou- sands of cases lovely women are to-day paying the penalty of their independence, sincerity, and self-respect; and if in our true tale we succeed in modifying an unwarranted prejudice, our labor has not been in vain. THE END. GEomichbooks (E(0)