A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 44: what you’re looking at

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AQ A LADY BACHELOR. CHAPTER V. SUSPENSE. Was Laurence Adams’ interpretation correct? We shall see. Our readers will recollect the circumstances under which Eloise went to her chamber. Her mother accompanied her to the door and kissed her. She did not notice how cold were her daughter’s lips, her own were so icy; the shadow had extended to the parent’s heart. A lover is not more observant than a mother when her child’s happiness is in the balance. Mrs. Studevant knew that George Edicott was to have been her daughter’s partner; she saw him present a substitute, and marked the disap- pointment suffered by Eloise. It has been previously in- timated that the parents were not blind to the attentions their child was receiving, and it is not unnatural that they should have been pleased. ‘The happiness of their child was their first care; the ordinary destiny of a maiden is happiness in the way of marriage. Unquestionably, George Hdicott appeared to be an unexceptional choice for one even as high-bred and beautiful as Hloise, and they could not but congratulate themselves that the one great prob- lem of their daughter’s life was in a fair way to be so hap- pily settled. This complacent view of the situation was not accompanied by any undue exultation; it was the final acceptance of what might be looked upon as the in- evitable. Both parents, although there had come ne avowal, naturally concluded the matter was settled. ) comicbooks (E(@) , if