Should She Have Left Him? — page 105: what you’re looking at

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92 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? Diplomacy is assumption and presumption. V assume that there is no other view of the subje we are about to discuss than the one we maintai and presume that this is conceded by the other sic Mrs. Courtenay was a social and domestic diplom: She made her first move in accordance with tl laws of the game. She met with an immedia check. Dorothy conceded nothing. Indeed s was positive there were other views than tho entertained by her mother, which, though not he by everybody, were, nevertheless, based on truth a: good morals. The issue was joined in the beg ning. Mrs. Courtenay, with all the force she cou summon and the ingenuity she could commar made a presentment of the conventionaliti Dorothy met it with the arguments she employ with Mr. Magrane, Trescotte, and her father, p haps with a little more skill, because they were n a little more familiar to her lips and vocabula: In vain did Mrs. Courtenay plead that morality wv opposed to Dorothy’s course. For each stateme the daughter had an answer, and for each argume acounter one. It is not for me to say on whi side lay the logic, but if sophistry was Doroth weapon it was effective against logic in her mothe hands. Mrs. Courtenay beaten, if not convinc retired from the discussion of the moral aspect a addressed herself to the social, where she thoug as she had a right, she was invincible, since she v a leader in forming social laws and customs. WI she presented to Dorothy the fact that she co CONMUG JOO cS (GO)