Should She Have Left Him? — page 22: what you’re looking at

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DOROTH Y’S IDYL. 9 from the matrons, by the remark that Trescotte was without redeeming vices, and would not be so dangerous if he would but devote himself to the young married women instead of the young girls. Trescotte was yet a subject of discussion when he relieved the anxiety of all the matron mothers, save one, by devoting himself ardently to Dorothy Courtenay. Mrs. Courtenay’s anguish was not allayed by the further discovery that these atten- tions were not disagreeable to her daughter. Dorothy had always given her mother a great deal of trouble. Thinking for herself, her conclu- sions were alarming, because in Mrs. Courtenay’s opinion they were radical, not to say anarchical. She had been heard to express the belief that all of life’s happiness was not to be found in the exclusive world in which her mother lived, and for which she had been trained. On another occasion she had ruined her father’s breakfast by the remark that wealth was not essential to a useful life. But when she gave expression to the heresy that she would prefer as a husband a man whom she could respect for his ability, attainments, and correct life— even if of moderate means—to the average man of her acquaintance, however rich, it was voted in the family that Dorothy was cursed with opinions, fairly incendiary, and Mrs. Courtenay at once took her in hand. “You spring from two of the great families of this country,” she said, “and your life must be con- trolled and directed by that fact. God has placed COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)