Should She Have Left Him? — page 56: what you’re looking at

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EVOLUTION. 43 It was simple and fundamental logic. Simulta- neously with the appreciation of the horrible fact that Dorothy was not his wife, was the conclusion that she would immediately depart from him, and that in honor he could not raise a hand to stay her. Such further thought as he was capable of in his distraught condition, was given to Dorothy’s dread- ful position—her life ruined by means of which he was the instrument. And what was maddening, he could see no way out, nothing that could be done for her. He was not deficient in either physical or moral courage, but he shrank from being a witness of the anguish Dorothy would naturally exhibit when she learned what her position in the world was. That was the reason why he had asked Magrane to tell her. Had he loved her less, he could have told her himself. He thought, too, and he did not shrink from it, that in her first grief she would reproach him, nor would he blame her if she did. He knew Dorothy well enough to know that, after the first wild burst, she would do him the justice of admitting that what he had done was done in ignorant innocence. When, then, after the door closed upon Mr. Magrane, Dorothy came to him without words of teproach, with sober yet pitying face, and laid her hands upon his arm, looking up into his eyes, he was bewildered. He thought Magrane had failed to do as he had promised. “You have heard the whole of the dreadful story?” he asked. CONMUG ”™ JOO cS (GO)