Should She Have Left Him? — page 47: what you’re looking at

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$4 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? yet passionate turn of her red lips, the perfect com- plexion, now paler than usual, the quivering nostrils, and the beautiful brown eyes. Those eyes baffled him—deep in color and rapid in play, but inscrut- able in their expression. He, who prided himself on reading the human face as an open book, con- fessed himself at fault. All he could determine was, that it was the face of a soul that could love deeply and passionately. Her thoughts he could not read, nor analyze the emotions by which she was swayed. He could see, however, that she, who was facing a ruined life, was under marvelous control. He thought, as he studied her, that she was the stronger of the two, and in this, her trial, would follow the dictates of her own conscience, and not be swayed from them. Dorothy at length roused herself and asked: ‘Where is my husband ?”’ There was aggressiveness in the emphasis she gave to the pronoun, and the thought again occurred to Magrane that she did not realize her position, so he said: “The situation is a grave one; the complications are the most singular of any case I have ever had under review,’—the phrase was a favorite one with him—*“ and the injuries fall most heavily upon those least able to bear them, that is in the view of the world.” “Yes,” Dorothy replied simply. Magrane thought he was not understood yet, se he continued: > COMICMHOOOKS.CO