A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 111: what you’re looking at

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SLIGHTS. 10% The girls eyed him from their coigne d’avantage, and | saw their pretty little maneuvers to attract his attention. 1 could read that any one of them would have discarded their previous engagements on the slightest pretense, and exchange their partner for this dashing and handsome young beau. He was about thirty, self-possessed and witty. When the girls saw the introduction to Eloise, and dis- cerned its meaning, I could see the eyes of some of them actually turn green with envy, and I read in their glances a portentous omen for Hloise. As has been intimated, Eloise did not look a day over three-and-twenty; and no one would have suspected an added year, had it not been for the eagle-faced vulture’s spiteful revelation: and 1 will add that it was her moon- faced daughters who inspired most of the annoyances that. met my little study at every hand. Later, I saw Eloise and her partner promenading the great hall; and 1 was near a tittering group of young misses, among whom were the moon-faced eaglets, and overheard their spiteful comments; and Eloise, when she passed near them, was compelled to overhear a remark the impertinence and insulting character of which brought a flush of anger to her face, and a bright, resentful light in /her eyes. ‘The young man, however, was too charmed to overhear aught that was said, and, had he heard, could not have suspected it was aimed at his beautiful companion. The german commenced. 1 wason hand. I hoped the evening would end in triumph; but, alas! it takes artful- ness to match artfulness; artlessness has no chance in the game. GomIcbooks:. co a