A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 46: what you’re looking at

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44 A LADY BACHELOR. In the morning the mother went early to her daughter’s room, which adjoined her own sleeping apartment. Her quick, sensitive ears had told her that her child was pass- ing a sleepless night. She longed for the day, hoping that, with the morning, there would come a satisfactory expla- nation. No allusion was made to the incident of the previous evening. Mrs. Studevant, still hoping all would be right, did not speak of her daughter’s ill looks, nor betray that she herself had passed a sleepless night. Later, Eloise met George, as has been described, and her heart was almost broken. She did not, however, let her mother know what had occurred. ‘They were to go riding, and she ex- cused herself. Her mother did not urge her going, and Eloise was left to her own sad thoughts. Mr. and Mrs. Studevant were to spend the day with a friend, and when the mother consented to her daughter’s remaining at home, it was with a suspicion as to her child’s reason for not wishing to go, and she hoped and expected, on her return, to learn that it was all right. | She indulged this hope, ignorant of the fact that George and Eloise had already met and parted, possibly forever. The mother did not spend a pleasant day; there was a shadow over everything. She was:still hopeful, and ‘vould not admit that there was any real cause for anxiety. It was a relief, however, when the carriage was ordered and they started for home, as she hoped and expected a cheerful termination and the dispelling of every cloud. When the carriage entered the hotel grounds, she cast looks in every direction. It was still early in the alters | (E(0) comicvooks ah eat pa 4 SAL tay st 4 Pa ae e¥. ; : go a sf f * Ae + 98 ont - Jah OS ee “4 J , % y ys tt pts eral ad oe i) ae y he Pal aired Bn ay Ae De ei a SF ar ee SF ee ad Be AL OS Oa ee a ee Pe ee ee ae ee ET Vf OM x BP > Bee Py! a.