Should She Have Left Him? — page 175: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER IV. MR. ADAMS ARRIVES. OSTRACISM was not prevented. Neither efforts of Mrs. Trevor-Allen, the dinner to Earl and Countess of Malcolm, the intimacy those noble people with the Trescottes, nor open countenance of the bishop, deterred soc from ignoring the young people. If Dorothy grieved ovcr this ostracism, she n murmured. She realized that there were other - ple than those who arrogated all the superio: who brought as much refinement and culture far more intelligence and accomplishment to t intercourse with people, and who were wholly ir ferent to the opinions of that society which bent on ignoring her. A few of her old frie chief among whom was Mrs. Trevor-Allen, de society and laughed at it. Mrs. Courtenay never was so haughty and a gant as she was this winter, and never gave s elegant entertainments, nor such exclusive ones. To all outward appearances the lives of the T cottes were happy and pleasant. None of sational pleasures which education and we x62 GOMMGIOO cS (GO)