He was unable to produce the money or to raise it in any way so that after a squabble scarcely less public and scarcely more decent than the original shock of battle his only issue from his predicament was a compromise proposed by his legal advisers and finally accepted by hers. The obligation thus attributed to her adversary was no small balm to Ida's resentment it drew a part of the sting from her defeat and compelled Mr. Attached, however, to the second pronouncement was a condition that detracted, for Beale Farange, from its sweetness-an order that he should refund to his late wife the twenty-six hundred pounds put down by her, as it was called, some three years before, in the interest of the child's maintenance and precisely on a proved understanding that he would take no proceedings: a sum of which he had had the administration and of which he could render not the least account. The father, who, though bespattered from head to foot, had made good his case, was, in pursuance of this triumph, appointed to keep her: it was not so much that the mother's character had been more absolutely damaged as that the brilliancy of a lady's complexion (and this lady's, in court, was immensely remarked) might be more regarded as showing the spots. The litigation had seemed interminable and had in fact been complicated but by the decision on the appeal the judgement of the divorce-court was confirmed as to the assignment of the child. The story follows her to maturity, when she is able to decide her own fate. They do not hesitate to use her in their war against each other, and she is neglected and abandoned by them as they each remarry and then take further lovers. Maisie's parents go through an acrimonious divorce when she is very young, and the court decrees that she will travel between them, spending time with each. Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional. Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 19, 2011). : Floating Press, ©2010.ġ online resource (1 electronic document (467 pages))Ĭhildren of divorced parents - Fiction.
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