Should She Have Left Him? — page 70: what you’re looking at

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64 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? in women, especially the last, which I don’t under- stand, and under the cover of which such disagree- able things are said—I never know what until I get home and study the dictionary. But then I’m an old fogy. Dorothy learned of the engagement by letter from her mother which reached her while she was roaming about in the fullness of her own happy honeymoon. Though she quickly detected the note of triumph in her mother’s letter, yet she was sad- dened by the news. So little of the true caste spirit did she evince that she really fell into a medi- tation as to whether young Waldemar with his habits was the sort of man to make the wedded life of her sister happy. Dorothy was cursed with ideas. But she wrote a very pretty letter of con- gratulation to Hilda, telling her her troth brought new obligations to her life which she should study to comprehend; and another quite as pretty to Walde- mar, whom she welcomed asa prospective brother-in- law, lightly hinting that the peace, honor, and happi- ness of the fresh young life he was about to take into his keeping could only be secured by strict observance of the vows he would make at the altar side. Mrs. Courtenay laughingly put these letters away when they were given herto read with'the remark: “What a dear, delightful prig of a daughter Dorothy is!” This was three weeks before the dreadful revela- tions at Saratoga. Comicbookk<s C@