Should She Have Left Him? — page 131: what you’re looking at

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118 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? isn't able to carry out its part of the contr Society has slipped acog. What is the result? Jove, Trescotte turns up with two women, bot! whom bear the relation of wives to him; Doro is wedded without a husband; Adams is wed without a wife; children with one mother ; different fathers; everybody innocent. except scamp of a civil magistrate—society’s agent, v was removed by another of society's agents, hav superior power, during his term of office, and v exercised a function of power after that po has ceased to exist. Now asks Dorothy: Socie machinery having failed, and brought about this ¢ dition of things, why should she, because of | failure to which she in no way contributed, punished with condemnation, ostracism, and sep tion; why should that child, yet unborn, be depri of the care and protection of its father, the nat and proper guardian? Upon my word, Mrs. Cou nay, a better head than mine must answer he can’t.” “ But,” argued Mrs. Courtenay, highly displea wondering that she had never noticed the vulga of the doctor before, ‘‘ having discovered this de with all its unhappy consequences, what right Dorothy to live with a man who is another wom husband ?” ‘“‘There you are,” cried the doctor, jumping f his seat, very much in earnest and pacing up down the floor, making Mrs. Courtenay so w that she was compelled to ask him for the fan ly mi... i, GOMMGIOO cS (GO)