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g6 ~ SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? should leave Trescotte and endure a life of seclu sion, simply because it was right for her to do so was firmly fixed in her mind, and if she had no been successful in impressing that idea _ upo: Dorothy, her daughter had been no less unsucces: ful in enforcing her contrary opinions. She fel that the right was with her and that, if she could no make Dorothy see it, the bishop could. If, in he arguments, she had mixed the moral with th social code, and had made ethics and society Opinions interchangeable terms, it was only becaus of her own peculiar education. But it must b admitted that she was greatly concerned as to th influence to be exerted upon her own social stanc ing by the knowledge that one of her daughter: was, in fact, living as a wife outside the legal bonc of wedlock; the influence upon Hilda's conten plated marriage with Waldemar; upon the daughte who was to come out two years hence; and upo the son who had graduated at Harvard that sun mer, and who would enter society the comin winter. Dorothy, notwithstanding the misfortur which had befallen her, in her father’s home, wit] drawn from society, might be an object of syn pathy, even of avoidance, but she would n« be a reproach to the family, which she certain] would be were she to continue her relations wit Trescotte. When Mrs. Courtenay touched upon this pha: of the question she made more of an impressio upon Dorothy than. she was aware. Had _ sh GOMMGIOO cS (GO)