Should She Have Left Him? — page 101: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER V. CHANGING THE TACTICS. IF confounded, Mrs. Courtenay was not dismayed. The knowledge which Dorothy had imparted, while it had drawn forth an unusual exhibition of sym- pathy and affection, did not in the slightest degree lessen Mrs. Courtenay’s determination to effect a separation. Though appeals to Dorothy’s womanly pride, social ambition, and moral sense had failed, other means, indirect, if needs be, must be em- ployed. The task of bringing Dorothy to her senses, which had seemed so easy as she lingered over the breakfast table, in the effort was difficult. Sitting in the dainty boudoir of her daughter, she was conscious she had been repulsed in the first attack, and with the loss of some guns. Like the prudent general she was, she determined to with- draw from the field while she could do so safely, reform her lines, and with strengthened forces re- new the attack. A wrong would be done Mrs. Courtenay if she were not credited with an earnest desire to rescue her daughter froma life which she believed could not be other than doubtful and blameworthy—a desire based in sincere affection, That Dorothy 95 Comicboolkkxs C@