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138 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? ple, learning all there was to be learned, condemnet their position, at least the charge of forcing them selves upon society in its ignorance of those rela tions could not be maintained against them. 5; this course also Dorothy could be preserved fron slights and humiliations. Fully persuaded as he wa as to the wisdom of this course, yet he shrank fron telling his doubts and fears to Dorothy in the hig tide of her happiness. But the time for the Hilda-Waldemar weddin approached. During the weeks preceding the wet ding, after the Courtenay family had returned fro! Newport, the Trescottes had frequently dined - Dorothy’s old home, and the various members her family had been frequent visitors at her tabl To all this Trescotte had submitted without prote: although he had been worried over sitting at tl table with Waldemar. It was not because he was any doubt as to the moral standard of Waldem: He knew only too well that that easy-going you gentleman had dined at many tables the female gra of which was a purchasable quantity, and often hi had the hardihood to leave his own drag at tl races to converse over carriage doors with beauti more notorious for the publicity of their lives th: the circumspection of them. But he also knew tl peculiar code governing young men of the Wald mar breed, and that they not only demanded fro their wives the most spotless escutcheon, but tl same from all of the female persuasion who belongs tothem. The possible cloud upon the Trescot > GOMMGIOO cS (GO)