Should She Have Left Him? — page 154: what you’re looking at

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MRS. DEEKMAN’S DINNER. 141 this had been known to the Courtenays from the beginning, yet, as the wife was a low Swiss girl back | in the mountains of her native country, and the Marriage was contracted before Trescotte was of age, it had been supposed nothing would be heard of it to discomfort anybody. But now the whole Swiss family, with peaked hats from which fluttered gay ribbons, with short velvet jackets with many buttons and cross bars of many metal laces, had suddenly appeared in the city prepared to push the rights of the Swiss Mrs. Trescotte to the extreme. And while society gossiped and wondered, Mr. and Mrs. Trescotte lived their own lives in their own way. Self-imposed isolation is what they called it. A figure of speech, however. They rode in the Park, and none on the Boulevard created more envy than they did when the famous hackneys swept along, arching their necks and throwing their knees up and down with the precision of piston rods. At the fall regattas the yachtsmen had admired the fine lines of Zhe Dectston, and noted with applause that, like a true sailor, Mrs. Trescotte took her “trick” at the wheel. Their faces were to be seen at all the first nights, and the Trescotte box at the Music Hall was as eligibly situated as the heaviest subscriber to the symphony concerts ought tobe. Moreover, there were current stories of dinners given to people famous in the arts and sciences, and musicales, which, if known in advance, would have led to more intrigue and diplomacy for admission than would have sufficed for three changes aD om wo ee “% CONMUG JOO cS (GO)