Should She Have Left Him? — page 258: what you’re looking at

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DOROTHY’S PROPOSAL. 245 ‘- Wersation last night and the proposal to take the . Child for adoption by you, Mrs. Trevor-Allen, and it seems it set her to thinking.” “That and some other things not necessary to mention here,” broke in Dorothy. “She heard your arguments too, especially that which set forth the position of the lad if he is allowed to grow up under the present relations and conditions. She has been thinking to-day, it seems, and much to my amazement, and I may say not a. little to my perplexity, this afternoon proposed that we, she and I, should adopt the boy.”’ “Very disinterested in Mrs. Trescotte, I’m sure,” said Mr. Magrane, a little surprised, and, sniffing a conflict with Mrs. Trevor-Allen, prepared to side with her. “Not at all!’ cried out the widow, owing him one for having disconcerted her. “It is only her duty, and what I knew she would do when she came to her own sweet self.” “But you wanted the child?” said the lawyer, dis- composed by the prompt rejection of his proffer of an alliance. “I don’t. But if I did, Dorothy is the proper per- son to take it,’ she said, and then a little mali- Clously, “‘we'll give you some time to reason upon the truth of this remark; I have arrived at it by intuition.” “I want to say,” Trescotte went on gravely, “that this conclusion was arrived at without consulting me. It is a way Mrs. Trescotte has of thinking out COMICMHOOOKS.CO @