Should She Have Left Him? — page 168: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER IV. MR. ADAMS ARRIVES. OSTRACISM was not prevented. Neither the efforts of Mrs. Trevor-Allen, the dinner to the Earl and Countess of Malcolm, the intimacy of those noble people with the Trescottes, nor the open countenance of the bishop, deterred society from ignoring the young people. If Dorothy grieved over this ostracism, she never murmured. She realized that there were other peo- ple than those who arrogated all the superiority, who brought as much refinement and culture and far more intelligence and accomplishment to their intercourse with people, and who were wholly indif- ferent to the opinions of that society which was bent on ignoring her. A few of her old friends, chief among whom was Mrs. Trevor-Allen, defied society and laughed at it. Mrs. Courtenay never was so haughty and arro- gant as she was this winter, and never gave such elegant entertainments, nor such exclusive ones. To all outward appearances the lives of the Tres- cottes were happy and pleasant. None of the rational pleasures which education and wealth 162 Comicloe S C@ 5}