His Other Wife: A Novel — page 384: what you’re looking at

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376 - THE LOST JIS FOUND. CHAPTER XLII. THE LOST IS FOUND. Deeply chagrined and disappointed, no doubt, yet by no means despairing, Leda established herself in her new lodging, which, on some. accounts, was. preferable to her tastes. The simple but commodious apartments over the millinery were wonderfully transformed by the introduc- — tion of elegant furniture, hangings, and decorations, which were all that remained to Leda of her once magnificent home. The little music-room became an exquisite bou- doir, where delicate mauve draperies, and rare roses, and statuettes, and bric-a-brac breathed to the sweet summer wind sweeping over them tales of a forgotten splendor. When the day was done, and the pupils, with their nervous hands and badly learned lessons, were out of sight, and, what was better, out of hearing, it was not a bad place for Leda to spend her evenings, had she pos- sessed the least talent in the world for entertaining her- self. Throughout her holiday youth there had never been any need that she should learn that most valuable of all ac- - complishments, since there were always so many ready and willing to entertain her, Sometimes Warren stopped in comicbooks-co