Should She Have Left Him? — page 234: what you’re looking at

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TT oo — 73ers KS THE OTHER. _ 22% more serious than a compliment. The contrast of the two men did more wooing for Buttontrave than he did for himself. One was a man, the other an apology. She was not compromised by the , attentions of the nobleman. Pride had guarded her against that. There was to be sure a little gossip, but La Belle Americaine, as she was called, was cold, it was said, and no harm came of it. Once alter returning from a ball, at which Buttontrave _ had danced so frequently with her as to cause an unusual comment, Waldemar spoke of it in remon- Strance. “Do not fear I will not respect myself,” she had replied coldly. “Before you give me advice, show me that you give as much respect to me and your- selfas I do to myself.” As he had spent the whole day with La Hoyle, he did not care to continue the conversation, and ke left her with the uncomfortable fear that she had come to have knowledge of the mistress. Though Hilda and Buttontrave continued to meet, the same reticence which had characterized their intercourse from the first was maintained. Yet neither was without knowledge of the state of the heart of the other. The vocabulary of love is mute, but none the less intelligible. Neither knew how it would end, nor perhaps in this, the springtime of their love, cared. But when the time came to return to America both were distressed and unhappy. The night before her departure, on parting from her, he had whispered, “I will follow,” but she was not , a GOMMGIOO cS (GO)