Should She Have Left Him? — page 65: what you’re looking at

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MARRIAGE A LA MODE. 59 night at Foster and Vials, to a whirling divinity clothed in pink fleshings and multi-colored lights. Nor did he ever fail to pay his losses—and they were often heavy—at daccarat, after the dear Prince made that game fashionable. The men voted him a square fellow, who backed his horses to run with nerve, a straight-going sportsman at all the games, who devoted enough time to the business in which he was a partner to assure his father that he would succeed him with credit. With the women he was a model, for he dressed immaculately for every oc: casion, did not smoke on the top of his drag, nor show evidences at social gatherings of too many visits to the champagne table, and was so rich that he could give the woman he married every- thing her heart desired, and I ask, in all candor, as the world is now constituted, what more could be wished ? It was Tracey Harte, one of young Waldmar’s intimate friends, who gave the fact of the engage. ment to the world. He was making a round of calls, previous to his departure for Saratoga, where the racing was about to begin, and where his and Waldemar’s horses were torun. Mrs. Trevor-Allen received his first call. This was not because the Trevor-Allen cottage was naturally the first one he would pass as he sallied forth from his own roof, nor because familiarity with the Trevor-Allen menage assured him that the aged head thereof had reached that hour and state when a nap was a necessary preparation for dinner, but because this season Comicloo CS C@ 3