Should She Have Left Him? — page 248: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VII. -DOROTHY’S SACRAMENTS, /HILE Trescotte was submitting the Waldemar inglement to the old banker, Dorothy was sitting de the cradle of her firstborn. Two subjects sessed her mind. Crooning a lullaby, soft and ,as she gently swung the cradle of her new joy hope, she was lost in deep meditation. [ilda’s hopeless position, her unhappiness, her ‘ow escape from shame and disgrace was one of subjects. Could Mrs. Deekman and Mrs. Bees- my have read the thoughts of Dorothy at this e,I greatly fear they would have been confirmed the justice of the crusade they had organized inst this young mother. Her thoughts were bit- against society,—the society she knew—its ideals, notives, its morals, and its educational influences. dead had she become to the code upheld by h superexcellent women as the two who had led the ostracism of herself, that she actually pro- inced that society as false, wicked, even without nmon sense, which is much worse, as we all w, than being false or wicked. When she sur- red the field and saw that Waldemar was no bet- nor no worse than others of his rank, in the life 235 COIN LOOO cS (GO)