Should She Have Left Him? — page 124: what you’re looking at

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118 SHOGELD SHE HAVE LEFT Hilt # isnt able “to carry out tts. part of the contract Society has slipped acog. What isthe result? By Jove, Trescotte turns up with two women, both of whom bear the relation of wives to him; Dorothy is wedded without a husband; Adams is wedded without a wifes children with ome mother ana different fathers; everybody innocent except the scamp of a civil magistrate-—society's agent, who was removed by another of society’s agents, having superior power, during his term of office, and who exercised a function of power after that power has ceased to exist. Now asks Dorothy: Society’s machinery having failed, and brought about this con- dition of things, why should she, because of this failure to which she in no way contributed, be punished with condemnation, ostracism, and separa- tion; why should that child, yet unborn, be deprived of the care and protection of its father, the natural and proper guardian? Upon my word, Mrs. Courte- nay, a better head than mine must answer her, I Can £.- “But,” argued Mrs. Courtenay, highly displeased, wondering that she had never noticed the vulgarity of the doctor before, ‘‘having discovered this defect with all its unhappy consequences, what right has Dorothy to live with a man who is another woman’s husband ?” ‘“‘There you are,’ cried the doctor, jumping from his seat, very much in earnest and pacing up and down the floor, making Mrs. Courtenay so warm that she was compelled to ask him for the fan lying Comicboolkkxs C@