Should She Have Left Him? — page 242: what you’re looking at

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HILDA RETURNS HOME. | 229 and had fled America without even an effort to see her again. Indeed, now that the danger and the Possibility of yielding was passed, she longed pas- Sionately for the opportunity of yielding. Since Lord Buttontrave was secure on the deck of an ocean steamer, she vowed to herself if he were to Open the door of her room and say “Come!” she Would rise up and follow him with gratitude. In- deed, as all the joy and happiness which, in her dreams during the days preceding the day of action, She had promised herself with Lord Buttontrave receded from her view and became impossible, she yearned for them, at the very moment she felt Strong in the security of the knowledge that he was On that steamer deck. And she visited Trescotte, who had sent the fascinating young nobleman away, with no displeasure. To the contemplation of Waldemar she turned with positive hatred. She was angry with Dorothy because she had not let the letter go to its destina- tion to forever and for all time sever the bonds of the hateful tie. It was difficult for Trescotte to make her see that, if she contemplated divorce, such a course would have placed a weapon in the hand of Waldemar, while under the recovery and destruc- tion of the letter he was practically defenseless. But to urge her, or to encourage Hilda in the obtainment of a divorce was not the purpose of Trescotte; nor was it of Dorothy. Indeed both of them shrank from the idea with a sincerity quite amusing to a cyncial old fogy like myself. Here COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)