Should She Have Left Him? — page 258: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER IX. A BLOW FOR FREEDOM. SEVERAL days passed before Trescotte, in his character as the representative of Hilda, received a message from the elder Waldemar. Then it was to the effect that having had an interview with his son, Mr. Waldemar had received pledges of reform, and the old gentleman urged that, perhaps, Mrs. Walde- mar the younger would be content, and resume relations. Trescotte had replied that while he believed that Mrs. Waldemar would not agree toa composition of the trouble, except on the terms she had commisioned him to present, nevertheless, he would lay the proposition before her. Hilda was obdurate. A day or two more passed, and Mr. Waldemar, the elder, desired a personal interview with Hilda. The request was granted, though reluctantly, and only upon the condition that Tres- cotte should be present. Though the elder Walde- mar pleaded the cause of his son well, Hilda refused to consider, or to moderate her demand, insisting that she had indubitable proof that Hermann, not- withstanding his father’s assertions, had not re- formed. Forced to retire, Mr. Waldemar apparently yielded to Hilda’s demands. But days elapsed and Comicbooks.c©