Should She Have Left Him? — page 119: what you’re looking at

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PLANS THAT FAIL, . 113 to them. Social position? What is it? Recogni- tion by and companionship with a few people wha think themselves superior to others no less refined or cultivated than themselves. But enough; I refuse to discuss it. My position is hard, but I will not increase its bitterness with the consciousness that I have done aught to increase the distress of a gallant gentleman, who once sacrificed himself to save my honor.” Mrs. Courtenay listened to this with rising choler. She had felt from the beginning of her visit that she was in a false position, and now to hear her darling class flouted as if of no importance, and her propo. sition denounced as little less than dishonorable, was more than she could endure. “You seem to forget,” she said with an unmis- takable sneer, “that dishonor is in the name of Adams, and escape from it in the name of Tres- cotte!”’ “And you, madame,” replied the other with gentle dignity, “‘ forget that I am in my own house, hostess to you.” To receive a lesson in good manners was not the purpose of Mrs. Courtenay’s visit to Buffalo. Very uncomfortable, she took her leave with the remark that she regretted that Mrs. Adams did not see her duty in the light others must. The interview was so trying to her nerves that Mr. Courtenay found the next half hour very trying to him. During the course of this half hour Mrs. Courtenay informed her husband that she found Comiclbooks.€© 3}