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The litigation seemed interminable and had in fact beencomplicated; but by the decision on the appeal the judgement ofthe divorce-court was confirmed as to the assignment of the child.The father, who, though bespattered from head to foot, had madegood his case, was, in pursuance of this triumph, appointed tokeep her: it was not so much that the mother's character had beenmore absolutely damaged as that the brilliancy of a lady'scomplexion (and this lady's, in court, was immensely remarked)might be more regarded as showing the spots. Attached, however, tothe second pronouncement was a condition that detracted, for BealeFarange, from its sweetness—an order that he should refund to hislate wife the twenty-six hundred pounds put down by her, as it wascalled, some three years before, in the interest of the child'smaintenance and precisely on a proved understanding that he wouldtake no proceedings: a sum of which he had had the administrationand of which he could render not the least account. The obligationthus attributed to her adversary was no small balm to Ida'sresentment; it drew a part of the sting from her defeat a