Should She Have Left Him? — page 254: what you’re looking at

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DOROTH Y'S PROPOSAL. 24! youth. “You know I won't know what to do if I haven't got you to bully me.” “It’s sad, I know,” rejoined the lively widow. ‘Some sacrifice to the god Propriety is demanded. And, in view of all I have done for you in the way of completing your education, it is the littlest thing you can do for me—make a sacrifice.” “You can bully me as much as you want,” said ‘Tracey dolorously. “I rather like it, but don’t laugh at me.” Before Mrs. Trevor-Allen could reply a servant handed her the card of Mr. Magrane. “Perhaps that’s the reason why I am dismissed,” said Tracey, much crestfallen, and not without a pang of jealousy, as the servant disappeared. “Now, Tracey, don’t be silly,” laughed the lady “You are not in love with me; you couldn't be, it you tried. And you haven't even tried totry. You simply like me. You're a very nice youth. But never be jealous of a woman’s lawyer.” “Why?” “‘Because she has to show up her unpleasant and mercenary side to him, and she’s such a fool about business that she knows she is disgusting her lawyer all the time. No woman falls in love with a man, unless she first is pleased with herself for having pleased the man. There is a small bit of truth for you, by which you ought to profit, if you mean to push your career as a heartbreaker. Go now, dear boy, this is a business engagement.” Tracey, believing himself badly treated, gave Ae, COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)