Should She Have Left Him? — page 204: what you’re looking at

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19d SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? you have the audacity, the wickedness, to harbor bitter thoughts, instead of giving him that sympathy he so much needs when so afflicted. It is the most pitiable exhibition of ingratitude I have ever seen. It is selfish, it is contemptible, and to me distress- ing, because I have revered you as a noble woman. It is petty jealousy, and I am ashamed of you.” “Lou Graham!” cried Dorothy, springing to her feet, her eyes blazing, going back to the girl-day name of her friend. ‘Ill not listen to you!” “You must!” insisted the other stoutly. “It is because I am your friend that I say what I do. What right have you to quarrel with Fortune? Did you not marry where you loved? Did you not choose for yourself? Have not flowers been strewn in your path? Have not love and_ tenderness enveloped you? Look at me-—at me, and be un- happy, if you dare. Forced to marry an old man whose life reeks with the filth of it; sacrificed to save my family from the poverty he could put it in, and the station from which he could hurl it; compelled to put aside the romance that could bring joy and sweetness into my life, to see two lives wrecked, to live without joy and without hope, to know the sacrifice I had made was regarded as treachery to the love I had confessed and the prom. ises I had pledged, to see the man | loved and who loved me, sink and pass away, believing that sordid ambition had made me faithless, without the power to explain, and then tell me what you have to com. plain of? What is it? What? Your husband has ComicboOoks.c© 3}