A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 14: what you’re looking at

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12 A LADY BACHELOR. joyous? She was young, beantiful, of high lineage, and in the midst of the very garden where brightest hopes and delightful anticipations were budding and blooming with each dawning day. Nature had done everything for her, . art had been eclipsed, and evidently the loveliness of her — person was excelled by the sweetness of her disposition. There are some faces that are easily read; there are speaking countenances upon which the soul delights to im- print itself, crowning them with the testimony to loveli- ness of temperament. Such a face was the one we de- - geribe, and it did. not seem possible that a threatening - shadow could come over aught so bright and promising. But, alas! the shadow was approaching, which, like a blighting frost, would wither all the hopes and anticipa- tions in the very garden where, for the moment, she rev- eled. This. bright young creature was, as intimated, of high lineage, but in the mutations of life her im- mediate family had run down the financial ladder. Her grandfather had been a man possessed of a large estate, but when a division came, a moderate com- petence only was apportioned to each heir. Henry Stur- deyant, the father of Eloise, was not a business man; all he could do was to keep the one talent... Fortunately, he had but the one child to educate, and managed to live in comparative luxury. Eloise had every advantage of edu- cation, and her character was marred by but one partly excusable fault. Her father’s weakness was family pres- tige; the daughter had been educated into a super-appre- ciation of the commanding value of lineage. Gomichbooks (E(@)