Should She Have Left Him? — page 57: what you’re looking at

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EVOLUTION. 51 ‘OQ Dorothy, if my death could place you where you were three months ago, I would gladly welcome it !”’ Swot it-cant, cear,. said Worethy. “Se, .we must continue to examine our position. Then, by doing what you think I ought to do, I would gaina respectability which would bring me none of the privileges or rewards of respectability.” Trescotte groaned over the inevitable conclusion. He again resorted to the irritating commonplace: “You would do what was right in the sight of the world.” “Ah, that world!” Again that peculiar inflection so perplexing to Trescotte. ‘I would be doing what the people, who would carefully avoid me, would say was right. Well then, that point is settled. In the sight of the world, my world, to leave you would be my duty. To whom?” Trescotte could not answer readily. So she went on: “To your You say your position is nothing, except as I am taken from you. To the world? What do I owe it, since it would banish me? To morality? I have obeyed every law laid down for me and am asI am through no fault of my own. To myself? Ah! what would it bring me? Would it secure my happiness ?”’ “ Ah, poor child!” The utter hopelessness of the outlook broke with increased force over Trescotte again. “Tf,” she said, tenderly nursing the hand she had Comicboolkks i C@