Geoffrey's Victory by Mrs Georgie Sheldon — page 29: what you’re looking at

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ee | A CHANGE OF RESIDENCE AND AN ADVENTURE. % About this time it appeared necessary for the interests of the house with which Mr. Huntress was connected, that he should remove to New York city. Accordingly, the beginning of Gladys Huntress’ thir- teenth year found the family established in a well-fur- nished mansion in Clinton avenue, one of the pleasantest portions of Brooklyn, while Mr. Huntress’ office was lo- eated in Dey street, New York. Here Gladys at once entered the high school, having passed her examinations most creditably, and giving promise of becoming a brilliant scholar. She dearly loved study, and asserted that as soon as_ she should complete the high-school course, she should “make papa send her to Vassar for another four years, to finish her off.” _And now there occurred an incident destined to havea wonderful influence on the voung girl’s whole future life. One afternoon in May, after school was over for the day, Gladys persuaded her mother to allow their coachman to drive her over to New York to meet and bring her father home to dinner. She had not, as yet, ever been allowed to go out alone in this way; but Mrs. Huntress could not accompany her that day, having an important engagement with some friends; but she knew her driver was perfectiy trust- worthy, he was very fond of the young virl, and she was sure that no harm could befall her, so the desired permis- sion was given, and the youthful maiden drove off in high glee, and full of importance at being permitted to go by herself to the great metropolis. The Fulton Ferry was safely crossed, and the carriage was rolling slowly up toward Broadway, when Gladys’ attention was arrested by a group of street gamins, who had surrounded a boy whom they appeared to be jeering and tormenting in a cruel manner, and who seemed com- pletely dazed by his position, and greatly distressed by the ill-treatment to which he was subjected. He was a peculiar looking boy, having a slender though perfect form, a delicate, rather aristocratic face, and a finely shaped head, crowned with masses of light, waving hair, in which there were rich tints of gold and brown. He was very pale and his full, large blue eyes hada strange expression in their depths—half wild, half pa- thetic—which went straight to our young heroine’s heart. He was neatly but plainly clad, though his garments had become somewhat disarranged by the rude handling GOMmIGbDoo S (E(0) =)