Should She Have Left Him? — page 219: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER IV. ONE OCCURRENCE. HILDA told her story, but neither with ease nor connectedly. She was too much distressed, too much broken and torn by too many conflicting emotions. But with the aid of Dorothy’s skillful questions the miserable details came out. Pride, ambition, her mother’s urgency, her false education, her warped nature developed under the forcing processes of the hothouse of her peculiar training, not love, had induced her to marry Walde- mar. Then there was the awakening, the realiza- tion, the recovery from that intoxication which the artificial stimulus of modern high life induces, dull- ing the senses while it brightens the wits of its. votaries. In the reaction which followed the pro- longed social temulency, the real nature of the woman began to have sway. She began to see, with a vision that was clear, not blurred, who Her- mann Waldemar was and what he was. Under the veneer of a gentleman he was brutish; under the gloss the fine world had put upon him his grain was coarse. A gambler and a sensualist, his tastes were low and his pleasures dictated by them. In three weeks Hilda had received the education before 213 Comicboolkkxs CO 3}