Should She Have Left Him? — page 117: what you’re looking at

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104 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? cochére, spacious conservatories, the mere occupancy of which argued ample means, a large doubt as tc the success of her enterprise took possession of her She comforted herself, however, as she rang the bell, with the thought that wealth was not always. especially in these new cities, the assurance of socia. position and fine feeling. If, as Mrs. Courtenay supposed, the Hallock family did not possess social position, it certainly had knowledge of those who did, for Mrs. Her. bert Courtenay’s card was recognized as that of one of society's brightest lights, and carried much won derment as to the meaning of its presentation Since the daughter of that house had, for a brie period, borne the name of the gentleman who wa: now the son-in-law of the lady presenting the card perhaps after all it is not singular that- it wa: quickly recognized. Mrs. Courtenay, sitting in the large receptior room, admitting its superiority to her own, notin; with critical eye the undoubted evidence of a kee and discriminating taste in its adornment, and argu ing, thereupon, the possession of that quality by th inmates, thought that if she were not within an her husband without, in the carriage at the door she would gladly retire from an enterprise which the further she entered into it, seemed more an more doubtful. By and by there came to her ; young woman not yet out of her twenties, appre priately and becomingly gowned, of winning pres ence, on whose face there were traces of trouble— GOMMGIOO cS (GO)