A Daughter of Delilah — page 58: what you’re looking at

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“LOVE THAT HATH US IN THE NET?” 49 His widowed mother enjoyed many of her little luxuries, including even her drives in Central Park, and her son had been induced to dine with the Alstons more than once. But he was always unhappy and discontented after see- ing Minnie Alston, and at last he resolved never to go to the Fifth avenue mansion again. What was he? A mere scenic artist, and she? The daughter of New York’s proudest millionaire! All this happened some months prior to the opening scene in this chapter, and Edward Hawley had vainly tried to tear the image of Minnie Alston from his heart. She could never be anything to him, and it was with the bit- terest pangs of sorrow and jealousy that he heard of the frequent visits to the Alstons of a good-looking British peer, known as Lord St. Leonards. He remembered Mr. Jabez Alston’s vanity, his ambition, his scoffings at love and all such insane nonsense. He was aman of inflexible will, of cold and cruel determination, which none ever ventured to oppose, unless they were brave enough to merit his eternal displeasure and enmity. A magnate with millions behind him is a dangerous foe! Gomicboo cS (E()