Should She Have Left Him? — page 110: what you’re looking at

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104 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? cochére, spacious conservatories, the mere occupancy of which argued ample means, a large doubt as to the success of her enterprise took possession of her. She comforted herself, however, as she rang the bell, with the thought that wealth was not always, especially in these new cities, the assurance of social position and fine feeling. If, as Mrs. Courtenay peidan the Hallock family did not possess social position, it certainly had knowledge of those who did, for Mrs. Her- bert Courtenay’s card was recognized as that of one of society's brightest lights, and carried much won- derment as to the meaning of its presentation. Since the daughter of that house had, for a brief period, borne the name of the gentleman who was now the son-in-law of the lady presenting the card, perhaps after all it is not singular that it was quickly recognized. Mrs. Courtenay, sitting in the large reception room, admitting its superiority to her own, noting with critical eye the undoubted evidence of a keen and discriminating taste in its adornment, and argu- ing, thereupon, the possession of that quality by the inmates, thought that if she were not within and her husband without, in the carriage at the door, she would gladly retire from an enterprise which, the further she entered into it, seemed more and more doubtful. By and by there came to her a young woman not yet out of her twenties, appro- priately and becomingly gowned, of winning pres- ence, on whose face there were traces of trouble— Comicbookks.€© Ss