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154 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? vented Trescotte from accompanying her, and sh! was alone. As she passed through the _ lobbie: crowded with those who a month previously wou! have made her passage one of delay and difficult by their salutations, she could not observe a sing. welcoming or friendly face. Upon the contrar acquaintances looked over her head, and old frien turned their backs upon her. Stung to the qui as she was, her pride and lofty spirit served he If there was heightened color in her face, the was regal haughtiness in her manner. She swe through the mass of skirts with a superb arrogan that would have delighted her mother, and wru: the heart strings of her husband, for he would ha known what it had cost her to carry herself bravely. This was the culmination of the sligt and humiliations, and she knew now she had be sent to Coventry. Of course she had expected : she had steeled herself for it ever since that d when the revelation was made, but it was so mu harder to bear than she had thought it would be. is all very well to sit in the quiet of your chamber a: defy the world. It is very easy, then. But wh you feel its contempt, what a different thing it: How large the world is then, and how small y are ! Mrs. Trevor-Allen observed Dorothy’s passage her box. Her point of observance was too remc to have permitted her to have saluted Dorothy, she had desired to do so. But she clapped h hands together lightly several times, causing an | COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)