Should She Have Left Him? — page 68: what you’re looking at

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BOOK II.—DECISION. CHAPTER I. MARRIAGE A LA MODE. THAT Hilda Courtenay and Hermann Waldemar were engaged became known upon the plighting of troth. No more startling and sensational news could have been given currency in Newport. There was, to be sure, an unusually large crop of Italian princes, English earls, French counts, and German barons, but where the assurance of the reality of their titles had not been established, the poverty of their purses had. Therefore with his noble connec. tions in Germany; his hundreds of thousands in hand and millions in prospect; his cottage in New. port, mansion in New York, and villa at Tuxedo; his stable of winning blood at Sheepshead ; and his yacht in the offing, young Waldemar was the most desirable Jartt of the season. Sore and bitter was the disappointment in fifty households of that superior and exclusive commu- nity when their young women, who had been in training all the spring, learned that Hilda Courtenay ‘had been placed first, and the rest nowhere. It was the disarpointment of ambition, not of affection. * Mia, GOMMGIOO cS (GO)