Should She Have Left Him? — page 78: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

72 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? lawyer, highly displeased. ‘Compose yourself. Take your seat,” pointing to a chair. ‘You must listen to a tale which will give you much pain.” Trembling with apprehension Mr. Courtenay sat down. Without elaboration, Mr. Magrane in lawyerlike way told the story. The old gentle- man could hardly wait for its conclusion to break out into angry denunciation of Trescotte. — “That will not do,” put in Magrane firmly and severely. “ Mr. Trescotte is unhappy enough, with- out being unjustly blamed. He informed you of the other affair when he asked for your daughter.” “But he lied to me, sir, he lied to me, for he said the other marriage was invalid,” cried Mr. Courtenay. “No; he did not,” returned Mr. Magrane very coolly. ‘* He told you the exact truth as he knew it. “T shall have him indicted for bigamy,” shouted Mr. Courtenay. | “No, you will not.” Mr. Magrane by his calm manner was striving to cool the other. “A true bill can never be found against him.” “‘T shall sue him for damages.” “And drag your family name into a rude public scandal ?”’ Mr. Magrane knew his man. This flash-light picture of his family involved in a public scandal, to be read of all the world, instantly quieted the old aristocrat. The lawyer did not disturb him as he was thinking. Slow of comprehension, and of choleric temper, the superficial aspect of the com- Comicbookks C@