Penny Dreadfuls, 1891 · page 67 of 316
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A SOCIAL METEOR, o7 bloom again. Do, and we’ll all go over to Europe together in June. Seriously, Georgie, you couldn’t do better. Just think of your position here in society. You’d be the envy of all the women, and you could live ex princesse. Besides, you and Lee were made for each other.” “You thought the same thing about Jack.” ‘Well, so I did,” admitted Ray, “but it seems I was mistaken.” “I could never love any one again,” replied Georgie. “See here,” exclaimed Ray, suddenly, “you're not pining after Zzm yet, are you? Because if you are, I can tell you that you are wasting your time. I heard yesterday from a person who knows all about it that he is at present paying great attention to some widow or other living in New York, a perfectly respectable person, but desperately in need of number two, as number one left her with a small army of debts to be settled when he died and little to do it with. Ox dzt,she is very hasty of temper, and that she actually tongue-lashed her husband into his grave. Jack no doubt has already heard this rumor, and yet he is devotion itself to her.” If Ray intended to be cruel, she must have been EONNIE DOOKS (E@)