Should She Have Left Him? — page 59: what you’re looking at

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EVOLUTION. 53 by the time I shall have reached my father’s house.” “ You would forsake friends—family?” “Have I not already vowed, in the most sacred place, to keep me only unto you, so long as we both shall live?”’ Trescotte folded Dorothy close in his arms in an ecstacy of resolve that seemed to him like a new sacrament. But again Society loomed up on his vision—Society with its ethics and prejudices, too strong in its influences from his cradle to be lightly disregarded. Gently disengaging Dorothy, he took her by the hands and, holding her from him, asked: “Do you know what this involves?” “T have thought it all out.” “The world will condemn you.” “Tt will shun me, when it does not condemn.” “It will take from you that respect it will other- wise give you.” | “But happiness will be mine.” “ Society will ignore you—insult you.” “T can ignore Society. It has not a monoply of happiness.” Trescotte silently held her hands, thinking pro- foundly and rapidly. His spirit was not timid, nor his love weak, and that was why he had the courage to think of and for her. He saw the yawning guli between the life Dorothy had lived and the one she was so willing to enter upon. He was looking into the mind of the Dorothy who had passed through the ordeal of ostracism and renunciation, to find if Comicloee® SS