Great
excitement followed. The young man resisted--Mrs. Dewey screamed in
terror--people flocked to the place--and mortifying exposure
followed. This story was in part corroborated by the following
paragraph in the Herald's Saratoga correspondence:
"We had a spicy scene, a little out of the regular performance, last
evening; no less than the caning of a New York sprig of fashion, who
made himself rather more agreeable to a certain married lady who
dashes about here in a queenly way than was agreeable to her
husband. The affair was hushed up. This morning I missed the lady
from her usual place at the breakfast-table. Later in the day I
learned that her husband had taken her home. If he'll accept my
advice, he will keep her there."
"Poor Mrs. Floyd!" It was the mother's deep sorrow and humiliation
that touched the heart of my Constance when this disgraceful
exposure reached her. "She has worn to me a troubled look for this
long while," she added. "The handsome new house which the Squire
built, and into which they moved last year, has not, with all its
elegant accompaniments, made her any more cheerful than she was
before.
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