A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 110: what you’re looking at

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Eine oS ge = Oe 7 eam ot" oy = 108 A LADY BACHELOR. No; those whose positions are assured, and who claim by right high social distinction, are the kindly and consider- ate ones; the others, as I have said, practice a circumspec- tion that is ridiculous and apparent. Unfortunately, this class is in the majority here. Mrs. is very kind; accept her invitation. ”’ | ‘‘She has shown especial consideration. Mr. —— will bring down a young gentleman to-night who, Mrs. says, is the most elegant dancer she ever knew. He is to be assigned as my partner.”’ ** Announce your acceptance of the invitation, Eloise. You are human; you are not altogether an angel; accept, and enjoy one evening’s triumph.” The evening train brought the young gentleman. I saw him when he alighted from the stage. He was a splendid- looking fellow, and I was pleased, for I had become deeply interested in my little study;.and, besides, I was in the line of my usual diversion, studying human nature I read the young man’s face; it was a good face, and, as l concluded, he was a real sensible fellow. I was near when the introduction took place between him and Eloise. If saw his glance of admiration as he first fixed it upon her; and the admiring glance was warranted, for his chosen partner for the evening did, indeed, look beautiful. She was elecantly attired, and by odds the best-dressed and handsomest girl in that house. And it appeared to me that she was to enjoy an evening’s triumph. 1 had become so warm a partisan, I enjoyed, in anticipation, the chagrin the girls who had treated her so meanly would experience. The arrival of the handsome young man was an event. Gomichbooks (EO)