A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 15: what you’re looking at

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SHADOWS. © 13 The Studevants had been for vears annual visitors at the great hotel; they were guests when the house was in its glory as a resort for people of high social standing. Eloise had passed, as a child, from summer to summer, until, as a young lady, she met the admiration of old and new friends. At the opening of the season in which the incidents occurred that we are about to relate, there ar- rived at the hotel a young man well known in New York society. He was a successful banker, and known to be of excellent family. He was handsome, well educated (being a Yale graduate), and bore every evidence of manli- ness and excellence in his habits. Socially, financially, and otherwise he seemingly fulfilled every requirement as a desirable acquaintance, and it was not strange that in the course of events George Edicott and Eloise Studevant should become friends, nor that, in time, he should have become devoted in his attentions. They walked, played tennis and croquet, and soon appeared to delight in each other’s society alone. We have no need to describe in de- tail the progress of their intimacy; one must have been born in some remote region never to have witnessed how young people meet and Jearn to love. The parents of Hloise saw and were seemingly content. There was no mystery as to the character and social stand- ing of George Edicott. Thal. their daughter should meet, love, and eventually marry & young man, was within the ordinary and possible order of events; and there appeared no reason why the course of love should not be permitted to ron smoothly in the present mstance. Alas! many "4 an oc ’* rs ye 4 ma <) tr i aus 4. r i onite ie ge ? n ian experiences appear to have been the basis of the old adage, cecomicbooks (E@)