A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 126: what you’re looking at

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_ ee ie - 124 A LADY BACHELOR. was to occur the ladies all appeared equipped for the excure sion, Miss Teft among the others, Eloise appeared later in her usual morning attire. Miss Teft was on the piazza, and seeing Eloise approach, ran to her and asked: ** Are you not going?’’ NO: ‘*¢ Are you not well?’’ Blushingly, Eloise answered: ‘* T have not been invited.’”’ Miss Teft’s face flushed with anger; she seized the arm of our insulted little heroine and walked away with her. Soon the carriages were drawn up in front of the hotel, and there was an inquiry for Miss Teft. At length that dear girl appeared, and the girls crowded around her, ex- claiming: ‘* Why, we were only waiting for you.’’ ** Oh, that’s too bad! But you need not wait longer; I am not going.” Well, there was a Babel at once. Miss Teft was de- cided, saying: **T have changed my mind. I shall stay home and play tennis with Miss Studevant. ” She persisted in her refusal, and the disappointment was great. And why? There was a famous steam-yacht in the bay, with a great party on board. Miss Teft knew them all, and was to have taken all the girls aboard. Her refusal cut them out of what was to be the crowning social triumph of the excur- sion. Eloise pleaded with Miss Teft to go, but that game little cComichbooks (E@)