A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 66: what you’re looking at

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64 A LADY BACHELOR. A week passed. Mrs. Studevant was a brave woman, and’ she was constant in her attentions to her child; she songht. to soothe and strengthen her, to encourage the stricken one, but it was resignation she advised—she could not hold out any hope. ‘The father, man-like, was hopeful; he said - it would come out all right. Well, that was natural; men do not, can not understand matters of this kind. He toox the hopeful view of the situation because it was more sat- isfactory and fully in accord with what he desired. Men mean well, but, except in rare cases, are incapable of per- ceiving when the finer sensibilities are wounded. And. Eloise—was she hopeful? Yes; there did linger a faint hope that all would come out right. She knew what she could not express in words. The mother permitted an occasional suspicion to cross her mind that her daughter had been self-deceived; that she had mistaken and misin- terpreted the special attentions she had received. Eloise knew better, and in the positive beliei—we may say knowl- edge—that George had loved her she built a faint hope, and was assured that some weird incident was the cause of his sudden and inexplicable withdrawal without explana- tion; and, strangely enough, there arose in her mind a singular suspicion, based on the coincidences leading up to the strange conduct of the man who had wooed and de- serted her. Singularly, the change had immediately fol- lowed the appearance of Laurence Adams, and, lacking any other hypothesis, she associated the two incidents, and conceived an instinctive aversion toward the man whose appearance had been followed by an event so fatal to her happiness. She avoided him, and when she Bb cComicbooks- com fhe PE BD ee tie raw are ' Tr th Ad hs wd CIP EP Ld OL TRE) Gey te dor Tort ie 2) DAT PUP eas bey Ae cf anh Aah a BNI aa i AD