Should She Have Left Him? — page 65: what you’re looking at

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52 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? never let go from her grasp, “if there was happine in my life before I met you, all that brought it - me would be denied me. Since you have come in my life, my chief happiness has been in you, a1 has come from you, and that too would be deni me. So the conclusion is, that to domy duty as tl world sees it, is to gain a respectability which h neither privileges nor rewards—at the sacrifice all my happiness.” The mists suddenly cleared from Trescotte’s brai He not only understood now, but he saw clearly t future of Dorothy, with its dividing roads. “Dorothy !” He sprang from his seat, lifting her with hi and with an arm about her waist, he turned her fa to the light that he might read plainly its expr sions. “You see,” she said, looking up into the ey bending over her so searchingly, “I have had su happiness in the thought of that beautiful hor you have builded forme. AndI have dreamed happily of our lives within it—that home whi even now is awaiting us.” “ But it is yours. I gave it to you.” The smile with which she answered him w ineffably divine. ‘Would it be my home and you not there ?” Trescotte, drew her closely to him, and in a voi low but laden with passion, asked : “'You would give up the world for me?” — I leave you the world will have given me : GOMMGIOO cS (GO)