Should She Have Left Him? — page 58: what you’re looking at

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52 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? never let go from her grasp, “if there was happiness in my life before I met you, all that brought it to me would be deniedme. Since you have come into my life, my chief happiness has been in you, and has come from you, and that too would be denied me. Sothe conclusion is, that to domy duty as the world sees it, is to gain a respectability which has neither privileges nor rewards—at the sacrifice of all my happiness.” The mists suddenly cieared from Trescotte’ s brain, He not only understood now, but he saw clearly the future of Dorothy, with its dividing roads. “Dorothy!” He sprang from his seat, lifting her with him, and with an arm about her waist, he turned her face to the light that he might read plainly its expres. sions. “Vou see,” she said, looking up into the eyes bending over her so searchingly, “I have had such happiness in the thought of that beautiful home you have builded forme. And I have dreamed so happily of our lives within it—that home which even now is awaiting us.” “But it is yours. I gave it to you.” The smile with which she answered him was ineffably divine. ‘‘Would it be my home and you not there ?” Trescotte, drew her closely to him, and in a voice tow but laden with passion, asked: “You would give up the world for me?” | “Tf I leave you the world will have given me up Comicboolkkxs C@