Should She Have Left Him? — page 76: what you’re looking at

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MARRIAGE A LA MODE. 63 follow her humor. ‘She had a plater forced on her in Trescotte, and he turned out to be a winner, Now she’s caught the first favorite in the pools.” Mrs. Trevor-Allen, repeating this technical charace terization of Mrs. Courtenay’s skill some hours later to certain mortified matrons, as a succinct summing up of the situation, rather than as an illustration of the proper use of language, sweetly and innocently added : ‘Which makes it so difficult to understand whether it is love or well-doing in manipulation which is its own reward.” | One of those perplexing remarks this perplexing young woman was given to. It was on this occa- sion also that she gave that celebrated bit of advice which was so admiringly quoted at the clubs the mext winter. Mrs. Huntington, with three mar- riageable daughters still in stock, aftera brief period of cogitation, emerged with the remark: “Mrs. Courtenay has only one daughter left to provide for.” “Pool your issues and divide the pot while the game isin your hands,” advised Mrs. Trevor-Allen. ‘“‘Priscilla Courtenay can’t be chipped in for two years yet. Mamma Courtenay, with her skill, will be out of the game during that time. TZendre wos parters, les mesdames.” There are people who insist that they see a great deal of satiri¢al wit in that speech, but all it sug- gests to me is an acquaintance with poker, Monte Carlo, and idiomatic French—three things I detest GOMMGIOO cS (GO)