In Sight of St. Paul's — page 13: what you’re looking at

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8 A DANGEROUS BEAUTY. possession of the abode in question, was giving a erand ball to celebrate the coming of age of his sec- ond and favorite son. The Chichester family consisted of Mr. Chichester the elder himself, two sons,—Tom, now about twenty- eight, and Harry, in whose honor the entertainment was being given—and a daughter, Gracie, about eighteen. With them lived alsoa daughter of Mr. Chichester’s deceased sister, a young girl named Aileen Millar. The Chichesters had not always been wealthy-—far from it. In fact, until only a few years before our story opens, they had been very, very poor. They had resided in the North of England, living a hard, toiling, country existence, Mr. Chichester working away his life to keep his debts down to the lowest possible point out of a few acres of the poorest land, under the title of ‘‘gentleman farmer.’ Mr. Chichester, impoverished though he was, came of an excellent family, and was inordinately proud of it. : But gentleman farmer! What good did that title ever do him? The turnips and beets swelled no larger through pride in their gentlemanly growers. The rye erew no higher, the corn was no stronger and heav- ier with the weight of obligations to the blue blood of their cultivators. Not a bit of it! The contrary was quite the case. ———, (Ee) m ae comicbooks