Should She Have Left Him? — page 168: what you’re looking at

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.* MRS. TREVOR-ALLEN S INTRIGUE. 155 tendant squire to ask if she was indulging in a pre- paratory canter for applause in the box. ““No,” replied the incomprehensibility, “I am merely relieving my overcharged feelings. I am delighted with the delicious way I have been snubbed.” ** You have been snubbed?” inquired the youthful admirer, looking around very fiercely as if he would resent the snubbing. “Yes; I, as one of my order,” replied the viva- ciOus young matron. “But don’t endanger your Mind by trying to understand me. On the contrary, find Tracey Harte for me. I will remain here.” “Am I, then, to be dismissed ?” dolefully asked the youth. ““No. You shall attend me to my box, but ‘Tracey must do something for me.” The young adorer of young married women was easily found. What Mrs. Trevor-Allen wanted him to do was evidently a secret, for she took him aside tO communicate her commands. Moreover, it was something at which he rebelled, for he replied aloud : “But, my dear Mrs. Trevor-Allen, my mother and sisters have gone that way, too.” “Ah, charming!” said the lady with the most insolent drawl she could assume. ‘‘ And you have such ideas as they will permit you to have! I make ita point to select as my friends, men. I shall regret to know that your visits upon me have ceased.” COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)