Beautiful but Poor — page 217: what you’re looking at

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— e 208 | BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. plain. In another note I have invited your father, brother, aunt, and Little Jessie, all to visit me at my home, No. — Beacon street, Boston, on the seventh day from to-day, at four in the afternoon, to remain there as a guest that night and as long as you will. Darling, I have written at length to you —to the others, extended only an invitation. Mr. Edward W——, his sisters and parents, will also be there, anda eentleman whom you have never seen, Come, darling, come. ‘‘Lovingly, ““GEORGIANA E. LONSDALE, nee ‘Hattie Butler.’ ”’ Hattie—or, shall we call her Georgiana after this —was on her way to Boston when those notes went out to their several destinations, carrying wonder and surprise to each recipient. Even Captain Smith got one, in which he was told to bring his whole family, and Mr. Jones was not SOT eOFLOD, nor the lit- tle woman and baby. , In the Legare house there was wonder and joy i in all but one heart. ‘“‘T wonder who the gentleman is whom we have never seen?’’ moaned Frank. “‘It’ll be just my luck —there’ll be a wedding; she’ll be the bride, and I'll be a shadow, standing back like cold beef alongside of hot turkey.”’ And there was yet more wonder with Edward W——’s sisters. But they vowed they’d go even if she had been a bindery girl. comic 900 CS (ee)