Should She Have Left Him? — page 182: what you’re looking at

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176 SHOULD SEL HAVE 102 LT Hine “You are She got no farther. She was lost in a multitude of conjecture. Mrs. Adams lifted a piteous, appealing face. She had found something condemning in Dorothy’s manner. “Do not be angry with me,” she pleaded. ‘“‘I am here only to assure you of my sympathy and friend- ship.” “Angry with you?’ All the rich sympathy of Dorothy’s nature had been stirred by the sweet face on which was written so much suffering, and yearning for love and compas- sion. Hertone told Mrs. Adams she was not angry. “It would have been very hard,” continued Elsie, as she wound her arm about the boy, who had crept to her knee, “if you had repulsed me, for my com- ing to you has been so opposed.’’ Unacquainted with the purpose of her visitor, per- plexed in her endeavor to penetrate its meaning, and embarrassed by the strangeness of the situation, which even yet in its entirety she had not compre: hended, Dorothy did not know what to reply. “You have something to tell me,” she finally said. “After all, it is very little,” answered Mrs. Adams with touching simplicity. “It is that I will never harm you, or do anything to separate you from the man you love.” Dorothy was more perplexed. “T cannot understand you,” she cried, and in her perplexity her voice sounded sharply, as she was instantly aware, “There is something to be ex Comicboolkks C@ 3}