A Daughter of Delilah — page 62: what you’re looking at

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THE TEMPTRESS AT WORK. 53 Hawley was watching her with passionate eyes, but he dropped them suddenly, and murmured: ‘‘T introduced him to this lady? What is her name, Miss Alston?”’ ‘“Hven that he will not tell me, but I have heard him speak of her as Isabel.’’ Edward Hawley’s face orew dark. ‘That she-devil!’’ he muttered; then jumping” to his feet, he paced the floor in violent agitation. ‘‘Miss Alston, you have shocked me beyond measure, ”’ he said. ‘‘Unfortunately, I did introduce him to a dancing woman named Isabel Russell. Edgar called at the Frivolity to see me, and she was there at the time upon business with the manager, who told mea part of her checkered career. She is a wonderfully beautiful woman, and Edgar insisted upon an introduction. You know how susceptible ‘he is. But the circumstance had quite escaped my memory, and I understood that her terms did not suit the manage- ment of the Frivolity. That is all I know of the matter.”’ Minnie clasped her hands in anguish. ‘‘T feared something of this kind,’’ she said. ‘‘His father will cast him off forever, and then he will go to the bad irretrievably. ”’ ‘‘And ina measure it will be Mr. Alston’s own fault,”’ Hawley remarked, bitterly and sternly. “‘He would sell his children to gratify an ambition which is contemptible in any man who breathes the true principles of American freedom.’ He gazed at her, an honest flush on his cheek, the fire of righteous indignation in his hazel eyes, and then he turned away with a sound that was half a sob. 7GOmMicboo (Eo) <S