Ruby's Reward — page 147: what you’re looking at

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Awl Ruhy !) Who shall do jnstiee to the siiaielit, slender, white-rvbed figure that eu Jutting down the magnificent stair- Mav ate, moments before her sister ! She wore a dre-s of uttstening white silk, the corsage made low, but filled in with sua dine rich lace that was diwwn up clo- eb at her thivat and fastened with a siiing of Lurge, vare pearls. There was no ornament about her save thac string of peal, and one «mall, beauti- ful whit: uly that ne-tled Tovingly above her farehcid among the masses of her goldon ban: but she wis simply exquisite from top to tee, while upon her bright face there vested such 1 tender grace that it was the loveliest fuasure of all. “What sprit from the upper world have we here’ sud he biother, meeting her at the foot of the statis and stooping to wind hiv arms cuound her while he gazed with a world af love and pride upon her. She stood on tiptoe, pus up her scarlet lips. and Tis-ed hin. ‘No <puit af all, Robert, but a very substantial piece of humanity, who is bubbling oser with bealth and anticipa- tion util her very tous ac tingling to the straiis of your mu-ic,” she replied, laugh. ing an} tapping het satin-slippered foot in time vith the cay waltz that came floating in from b-yond the conservatory. * Vou ae lovely, Ruby - tike some ‘fair lady eutmented in licht,’” said her brother, with anol her fond caress. “Qh, Robert, what barefaced flattery, and you a mariied man these ten years !” the fair cit) reborted, rocuishly, ceaisbocks.com ee