Should She Have Left Him? — page 28: what you’re looking at

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DOROTHY’S IDYL. r§ same time, had more than doubled. At the time of the exchange, and indeed for some time thereafter, the bonds were quoted ata premium. This wasa fact not to be denied. No one, much less the elder Trescotte, had ever charged Mr. Courtenay with having unloaded unprofitable holdings upon a friend. It was all ascribed to his good luck and to _ Mr. Trescotte’s bad luck that the smash should have come when it did. But the fact was, that Mr. Courtenay had possessed knowledge of certain events about to occur, which in the nature of things would practically wipe out the bonds, and he had hastened to get rid of them before the knowledge became general. So when this young Trescotte, with his charming manners and correct habits, came to ask for his daughter Dorothy, all the objection he could raise was what Mrs. Courtenay had made— Trescotte’s lack of wealth, and he, Courtenay, had largely helped to that lack. If Trescotte regarded Dorothy as a possession beyond fine gold, as I must confess I believe he was impracticable enough to do, he would have blessed that exchange which took so much wealth from him, for having decided to give his daughter to Trescotte, under an impulse of regret for having treated the elder Trescotte so shabbily, Mr. Courte- nay put forth a restraining hand against Mrs. Courtenay when she was disposed to make it un- pleasant for the young people who had become engaged at the very time she was laying deep plans to separate them. “™ GOMMGIOO cS (GO)