Should She Have Left Him? — page 136: what you’re looking at

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130 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? position as they all supposed they were on the day he had married them—truly and lawfully wedded. Much delighted, and with all burdens lifted from her conscience, Mrs. Courtenay went to her second call—to Dorothy. This time she saw Trescotte, for all bitterness had passed away and she was pre- pared to take him into the sunshine of her favor as her son-in-law. We are all of us prone to believe earnestly what we sincerely desire to believe. It is therefore not to be wondered at that, having Mr. Magrane’s opinion and the bishop’s approval, Mrs. Courtenay was persuaded that there was not the least flaw in the marriage title of her daughter, and whatever trouble there was, was due to the very stupid discovery of Mr. Adams, and that Tres- cotte and Dorothy had been very badly treated. So improved was the condition of her mind that, as she waited for response to her bell, she noted with critical delight the equipage waiting to take Dorothy for her afternoon’s drive, perfect in its de- tail, from the superb horses to the motionless foot: man with folded arms standing at the door of the coach. When Dorothy, who had been anticipating another assault from her mother after the calls of the doctor and the bishop had justified her hus- band’s predictions, learned the purpose of her mother’s call, she was greatly delighted. Perhaps she cried a little over the satisfaction she found in the assurance that she was a wife in name as well as in fact. And there was no less satisfaction in the Comicboolkks C@ 3}