Should She Have Left Him? — page 42: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER IV. A GIRL BECOMES A WOMAN, — MR. MAGRANE’S gesture was eloquent. Trescotte asked no further questions, but sat up- right and rigid, his face expressionless. The silence was so long that Mr. Magrane felt he must do or say something to relieve the strain. Mental suffering he had often witnessed; it was incidental to the practice of his profession. Within the year he had assisted in the unmasking of one of his own profession—a man of the highest social standing, whose punishment was more in the dis grace of exposure than in the sentence of imprison- ment. In all these cases exposure had been antici- pated and there was a sort of preparation for it. But in the case of Trescotte, revelation had come without even the suspicion of its possible occur- rence. “Of course,” he said trying to assume an advisory tone, “in view of all the circumstances, the charge of bigamy against you cannot be maintained.” A faint gesture from-Trescotte warned the lawyer that he was on the wrong tack; that Trescotte gave no thought to himself, but to the deplorable— the dreadful position of Dorothy. GOMMGIOO cS (GO)