Should She Have Left Him? — page 195: what you’re looking at

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BOOK IV.—THE TRIUMPH OF THE BLUE RIBBON. CHAPTER I. MOMENTOUS EVENTS. IN the following February occurred three events of concern, all within a week and in the order named: A baby, a little girl, came to the house of Tres- cotte; Mrs. Trevor-Allen became a widow, her husband having died after a brief illness; and Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Waldemar returned from Germany to begin a career of fashion in New York. The first event again put into malignant activity the gossiping tongues, which, having accomplished the ostracism of Mr. and Mrs. Trescotte, had stilled from sheer weariness. And Mrs. Courtenay, learn- ing of its renewal, and knowing of the near approach ef her other daughter, wondered, with a little trepi- dation, what the effect would be on Waldemar. When she saw Hilda, however, her concern was of another kind. A marvelous change had come over Hilda. What had happened in the four months of 189 Comicboolkxs