Should She Have Left Him? — page 19: what you’re looking at

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DOROTHY’S IDYTL. 13 simple process of presenting ideas, very well when applied to grocers and other laboring people, but absurd applied to people of rank and wealth, with their complex obligations. Mrs. Courtenay’s lecture did not make the in- tended impression on Dorothy. In fact Dorothy dismissed it asnonsensical. She resented, of course, the charge that she was encouraging Mr. Trescotte in his attentions; she knew it to be false. A rapid review assured her that there had been noth- ing loverlike in Trescotte’s attentions, or in her reception of them. She had been pleased with him | from their first meeting. Intuitively appreciating his worth early in their acquaintance, she had come to learn that he was a man who, for his amuse- ments, sought art rather than horses, and literature rather than gossip; and, for occupation, scientific experiment rather than the stock ticker. Who, for companions, preferred men who could bring to their intercourse something more than the last quotation from the Board and the weights for the next handi. cap, even if all of them did not frequent the houses of Mrs. Courtenay’s world. Such was the singular: perversity of Dorothy’s nature, that this appreci- ation of the man had operated to a prejudice in his favor. The real effect of her mother’s ill-tempered words was to open her eyes to possibilities which until then had not occurred to her, but which, being revealed, were the reverse of unpleasant. She sata long time pondering on this revelation—so long, Comiclboolkks C@ 3