His Other Wife: A Novel — page 120: what you’re looking at

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112 GORDON WARREN’S PUPIL. Honor had no place in her calculations, either for herself or him. She felt herself poised between two over- mastering feelings—hatred for her husband, and a wild . infatuation for Warren. Besides this, her experiences since her marriage had rendered her utterly reckless with regard to the future. She felt herself involved in a tissue of calamitous possi- bilities that might at any moment culminate in her social ruin; and she deliberately determined on hazarding her fate upon a venture which would be no less disastrous than the perils that encompassed her, but which presented to her the prospect of at least a season of enjoyment. Whatever came of it, she was fully resolved to win back the man she had forsaken for prudential motives. As to Warren’s purpose, it was simple enough. His true and chivalrous manhood recoiled in disgust from the cold-blooded barter which Leda had made of herself toa man whom, of all others on earth, she should have scorned, had she been aware of facts confided to him by her mother, Of course, her ignorance of these facts ex- -onerated her from any more heinous offense than the sacrifice of her heart and her womanhood to the baseness of social vanity and worldly ambition. He guessed very accurately what arguments Croft had used to induce. her to marry him with such indecent haste, and he despised her for yielding herself to them. So utterly had this con- tempt extinguished the flame of his former passion for her beauty, that he now abhorred the delusion which had Comicbooks.¢o 3