Should She Have Left Him? — page 171: what you’re looking at

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MK. ADAMS ARKRIV £5, 165 have admitted the invalidity of the civil, by con- senting to the performance of a churchly, marriage. Yet, if you had yielded to quiet the qualms of con- science of Mrs. Adams, I do not think you would have been troubled.” “Well, I thought I would get into trouble by it. Or, if I didn’t, Elsie would.” | Before this, the lawyer had noticed a tenderness when Adams spoke of Elsie. ‘“‘Trescotte,’ continued Adams, moving his chair closer to the lawyer’s desk so that he could lean his arm upon it, ‘acted very handsomely toward me when in Berlin-—the time I carried off Elsie, you know. Perhaps it would have been better for us all if I hadn't, but that doesnt alter the fact that Trescotte was very manly and straightforward. I thought, then, that his action was due to his belief that he had been badly treated by the Hallocks. But when I came to talk with Elsie, and learned all there was to be learned, I felt that it was because he saw Elsie was really fond of me, and I of her. The same sort of chivalry, you know, that made him marry Elsie. On her part, Elsie has never accounted satisfactorily to herself why she did not tell Tres- cotte of that marriage in Buffalo, before I turned up. She tried to, that day they were married in Switzerland, but then she was silenced by her father. You would suppose that she would have told him after she got from under her father’s influence. But I suppose then she could not summon the courage, and so let things drift. Women are not like men. CoMmicloo® S