Should She Have Left Him? — page 121: what you’re looking at

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108 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? tress you, is by no means as bad as it will at appear. You know that every cloud has a—— “ Mrs. Courtenay,” cried the poor little distr: woman, “do have mercy and tell me what mean !” Mrs. Courtenay, who thought she was appr ing the subject with rare delicacy, was disple that she should be hastened, and said abruptly “Mr. Adams discovered some eight or months ago that the marriage of yourself to was not valid—that the magistrate who perfo the ceremony had no authority.” Mrs. Courtenay regretted her abruptness - she saw the young woman fall back in her « She thought that Mrs. Adams had fainted an sprang up to call assistance, but the young we by a plainly evident effort regained possessic herself and, rising from her seat, crossed the | and closed the doors. ‘‘I have had so much trouble in my short li: have been so unhappy,” she said plaintively, ‘ a little more cannot make much difference.” She came back to her chair and leaned o back. ‘‘So I was not married to George, after all, mused, oblivious to the presence of the high. dame of society, and the world, and the fas ““I have always feared that it was so. It dic . seem like a marriage ceremony. I have lived him eight years, the mother of three childre mother and yet not a wife ! COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)