Should She Have Left Him? — page 23: what you’re looking at

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DOROTHY" S {DY2. 17 with two millions or more to his credit in the bank, awaiting investment. Virtuous actions have their rewards. Mr. Courte- nay was credited with being a very shrewd old fellow who had seen the possibility from the first, and Mrs. Courtenay found compensation in the rapid change of her dear matron mother friends from self satisfied sympathy to mortified envy. There is a vast difference between an income of eight thousand and eighty thousand a year, and that is the reason why the prospective son-in-law, who had leaped from one to the other, appreciated a sudden change in the atmosphere in ana about the Courtenay mansion—it was more balmy and genial. I am compelled to admit, however, that I saw traces of a littleness of spirit upon the part of Dorothy, in that she seemed to show regret over this change inthe fortunes of her lover. I am really afraid that the notion crept into her silly, romantic head, that a sweet something, akin to a sacrifice, had been taken out of their idyl. So, in due course of time, they were married, and by the Bishop, too, for Mrs. Courtenay insisted on that, and the world came to the wedding, bringing those valuable presents it never would have brought to the wedding of an eight thousand dollar man. lhe bride and groom went on their travels, and at the end of three months brought up at Saratoga, where we found them in the first chapter. Comicboolkkxs C@ 3