Ruby's Reward — page 366: what you’re looking at

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| “No, Estelle,” and the fair face was crimson now, “Tam to go to Redville for a little while, after our visit at Madam Howland's, where I am to have a real rest. Then madam insists that I shall return to her, to—to remain until—while T am having my sew- ing done.” : “Ah! Tunderstand; you have been arranging for. a wedding,” said Mrs. Gordon, siniling at her con- fusion. | "Yes,'" Ruby confessed, more freely, now that the the ice was broken, ‘madam says there is*no reason. why Walter should delay making a home for himself, and she wants hin to be settled. Besides, she says she would like a place to visit occasionally for a change.” ee you are not to live with her, nor she with you! “No, Walter wants her to come to us, but she says she has lived so long by herself, she prefers to keep up her own establishment, though she assures us that | she will come to see us often enough, and stay long enough to prevent our forgetting that we have a grandmother,” Ruby concluded, siniling, “Where are you going to live, Ruby ?”” Ruby laughed outright at this question. ‘1 don’t know, Estelle. Walter says I am not to trouble my head about that, since I shall have enough else to occupy my attention during the next few weeks,” “T suppose he will be considered a very rich man now, with his legacy from Mr. Carpenter, and his ex- pectations from Madam Howland,” “Yes, I suppose so,” the young girl answered, with a strangely grave look, “Tam very glad, Ruby darling,’ said her sister, heartily, ‘‘and I hope you will enjoy your wealth and position—you deserve to, I am sure, for you have borne poverty like an angel.” “T hope, Estelle, that poverty has taught me to be more considerate or the poor than I used to be, and Walter and I both intend to do all the good that we’ pha his fortune. There is only one. Sting in it