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12 SHOULD SHE GAVE LEFT gin? and I demand that proper respect be shown him.” | “Mr. Waldemar should first respect himself,” replied Dorothy rebelliously. ‘‘ His life does not commend him to a young woman as a good hus. band.” “Now for Heaven’s sake,” cried Mrs. Courtenay, actually growing vulgar, as she grew angrier, “ have you been bitten by the new craze?” “ What craze, mamma?” “That idea ill-bred people are so indecently urg: ing, that woman should demand the same purity in man, man demands in woman.” “Is there such a craze? Idid not know it; but it seems to me to be very proper.” ‘“‘T have no patience with you, Dorothy. Youare wholly unlike your sisters. Where you, who have been brought up so conservatively, can have picked up your radical notions, I cannot comprehend. But listen tome. You must cease your encouragement of Mr. Trescotte. If you do not, 1 shall be com- pelled to deny him the house.” Mrs. Courtenay ended the discussion by leaving the room, having made, true to her sex, the point, which was her sole object in the conversation, in her last remark. In truth, Mrs. Courtenay fled from the discussion. She stood in awe of her daughter, deny it to herself as she might. Dorothy possessed the vexatious faculty of making her mother appear as if she were uttering false morals in these discussions, by the Comiclbooks.c© 3