Should She Have Left Him? — page 73: what you’re looking at

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AN ECCENTRIC HONEYMOON. 67 activity, saw that society not only was powerful, but had innumerable ways of punishing infractions of the laws it made, whether just or not. One thing was verycleartohim. They must leave the hotel and Saratoga before their peculiar position became known. He knew, were that knowledge to become public property, that Dorothy would be subjected to the indignities of insolent curiosity and malevolent gossip from those who now were ser- vile, even, in their efforts to secure her recognition. He did not falter in the course they had chosen; he felt neither remorse nor regret. Having cut the strings by which tradition and conventionality had bound him, when he first considered Dorothy’s future, he was brave in his determination to face the world with her; but it was with a full apprecia- tion of the spites and the cruelties of that world. He saw, and without flinching, that his stout heart and his strong right_arm must ever be interposed between Dorothy and the world’s numberless ways of insult. To shield her, to keep her even from knowledge of them, was to be henceforth and always the warfare of his life. He did not know to what extent Magrane had spread the knowledge he had acquired, nor how far malice might go in striking, it might even demand their retirement from the hotel. All this he thought the while Dorothy was nestled in his arms, content in the victory she had won, and happy in the sacrifice she had made. It seemed to him to be the wiser course to go abroad for a few years, but when, after Dorothy Comicboolkks C@© 3