Ruby's Reward — page 208: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXYVI. A CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES, It was indeed true that Mrs. Robert Gordon was again a comparatively wealthy woman, and had been made so through the death of her husband, ) When Mr. Gordon had been at the height of his prosperity he had taken life insurance policies for upward of fifty thousand dollars, and, as he had fortunately completed his payments upon them just before his reverses overtook him, there was uo trouble about the payment of the different sums which served to place his wife again in affluent cir- cumstauces. Mrs. Gordon knew that her husband had been in- sured, but she had not known to what extent, and when informed of the fact that a tortune awaited her disposal, the knowledge seemed to inspire her with new life. Her health, which had been so delicate since their misfortune, began to improve immediately. The color returned to her face, the old animation and en- ergy to her wanner, and elasticity to her step, She no longer shut herself away in her room to brood and weep, She began to mingle with the world again, and though “she would not go into society during her season of mourning, she rode a great deal, resuming her old place in her chureh, aud no longer denied herself to friends and visitors, who now poured jn upon her with offers of sympathy and condolence. The little house which had been the scene of her bitter humiliation, and where her husband had died, was not considered a fitting abode for herself and Ruby in their altered circumstances; consequently everything was stripped from it and sold at auction, while a handsome suite of rooms was Taken in Dy fashionable and pleasant street, where filienaehes cond die of gloom and loneliness,” as Mrs, as hie 1