Should She Have Left Him? — page 278: what you’re looking at

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272 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? with cards; and there were nods and bows, and gracious smiles in public places, and invitations to teas and dinners. And finally came the apotheosis. The Trescottes found their names high up on the list of the patron Patriarchs, as Dorothy, with a merry laugh, showed Mr. Magrane one evening, giv- ing that gentleman an opportunity to indulge his habit of quotation: “ Applause Waits on success, the fickle multitude, Like the light straw that floats along the stream, Glide with the current still, and follow fortune.” He sauntered away to the smoking room, very much at home in this house, to the happiness of which he had so much contributed. “This is ‘an earthly world.’ Downs, give me a cigar.” “Ves, sir.” “‘When to do harm is often laudable;’ and a glass of Madeira, Downs.” “Yes, sir.” ““To do good, sometimes accounted dangerous folly.’ ‘Ves, sir.” ‘‘Oh, you agree with Shakspere? You're a phil- osopher, Downs.” “Ves, sir.” Mr. Magrane supplied such of this tale as was unknown to me one bright moonlight evening on Comicbook<s C@ 3