Gratia's Trials — page 223: what you’re looking at

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214 GRATIA’S TRIALS. they felt like denizens of some cther and humbler world, the carriages were thundering away down Eleventh street ; the wed- ding was over. And Mrs. Kempfield had had the very questionable satisfac- tion of seeing the brilliant marriage of the step-daughter whom she had so openly hated and contemned. Verily, Gratia had striven ‘‘against wind and tide ;” but she had conquered at last. [THE END. ] Ecomicbooks G @)