Should She Have Left Him? — page 24: what you’re looking at

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DOROTH Y’S IDYL. : gS alliances which make for the common good of our caste—among themselves, where wealth is.” “ And yet,” replied Dorothy, and I regret to say, disputatiously, “Mr. Waldemar is welcomed to matrimonial alliances, though he is far enough removed from our American families.” “You forget,” returned her mother in her most stately manner, “that Mr. Waldemar is allied to the nobility of his native country; that on taking residence here he enters our circle by right of birth thus drawing the bonds between the best people of two countries closer together, while he contributes large wealth to the common stock.” ‘Mr. Trescotte,” suggested the daughter, “is a descendant of one of the oldest of the American families.” “Mr. Trescotte,” promptly returned the mother with much severity, “has forfeited his rights by permitting the means by which he could maintain the traditions of his family and his place in our order to be wasted.” “Why, mamma,” exclaimed the girl with that ridicuious adherence to exact truth which always so disconcerted Mrs. Courtenay, “it was his father who ruined the property.” “His misfortune then; and misfortunes of the kind are little less than crimes.” And then the good lady, losing her temper, lost her case by add. ing: “It is not becoming in you to dispute me. You must give heed to my words and obey me. Mr. Waldemar is disposed to be attentive to you, CONMUG JOO cS (GO)