Should She Have Left Him? — page 70: what you’re looking at

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MARRIAGE A LA MODE. 57 of her duty to the station of life into which she was born, and she was not cursed, as Dorothy was, with ideas. All this made her ductile in the hands of her mother; and skillful her mother was—an artist, rather than a mechanic—an artist who knew how to conceal art by art. | Not the smallest part of the pleasure Mrs. Courte- nay derived from the contemplation of her triumph was in the knowledge that all her dear matron friends, who, in the rounds of pleasure of the next few days, would greet her with smiling congratula- tions, were now consumed with angry envy. With what never failing interest that trite reflection re- curs, that most of our joys would turn to dead ashes, could we not know that their possession was the cause of envy, distress, and mortification in others ! It may be supposed that this young Waldemar, over whom all this stir was made, was a very superior young man. But we of that world which is much the larger have such differing ideas of superiority. John Brown, whose fifteen plays were damned, is compelled to look upon Alfred Barnes, whose seven plays were successful, as his superior; and if he doesn’t, the managers, whose opinions are decisive, do. Charlie Smith who pulls in a single skull race may not think Tom Notting his superior, but the crowd which applauded Tom as he shot. over the line first thinks otherwise. The dignified professors who hand to Nathanial the laurel wreath evidently consider him superior to “ Baby” Elling, St COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)