Should She Have Left Him? — page 109: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VI. PLANS THAT FAIL, Ir, in the contemplation of the plan she had evolved, and which she had traveled to Buffalo to execute, Mrs. Courtenay relied on the belief that the lady, ‘‘now known as Mrs. Adams,” to use Mr. Magrane’s phrase, would be open to the blandish- ments of the elegancies and luxuries of life, fine houses, and all the other things concomitant of wealth, she must have sustained a severe shock of surprise when she drew up in front of the Hallock residence. , As she was driven up that noble thoroughfare— one of the finest in all the States — Delaware Avenue, she had noted with wonder, and with that resentment we cockneys of New York are prone to feel when we see evidences of wealth and fashion elsewhere than in our own city, the many fine residences with spacious and well-kept grounds about them. But when the horses were suddenly swung from the street to a broad graveled road which wound through extensive grounds, embracing the entire square, in the center of which stood a building of pretentious architecture and imposing dimensions, with wide verandas, porte 103 comicboo S C@ 3