Should She Have Left Him? — page 141: what you’re looking at

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128 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? So she left the lawyer, determined upon her poli and that was to say nothing in her family, or tot friends, implying a doubt as to the regularity of t Trescotte marriage, and if anyone was presumptuc enough to speak of it within her hearing, she wot summon to her aid all that arrogance which s knew so well how to use. Surely, she thought, she was riding up town, the families of the Cour nays and the Van Allens, with their powerful c nections, were potent enough to force a respect recognition of Mr. and Mrs. Trescotte. Mr. Banl had forced the acceptance of his daughter when | name had been compromised in its association w Tom Handysides, even though Mrs. Handysi had gone to the length of beginning a suit divorce. Surely she could do asmuch. And t beginning of the effort was to be found in refusi to admit the possibility of a doubt of the integr of the Trescotte relation. By the time this conclusion was reached so v the hotel at which she and her husband were st: ping. For a lady, certainly not less than forty-s accustomed to the most dignified leisure and 1 extreme of luxury, the three days since she had | home had been of unexampled industry. Exc ment and her natural energy had kept her up. I though she was beginning to feel the effects of |! labors, she had yet more business for the day. FEF husband was anxiously awaiting her arrival. | ‘was immediately thrown into confusion by t rapid change of front of his wife. When he 1 ees... CONnIICOO @ cS (GO)