Stella Rosevelt — page 214: what you’re looking at

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* 208 : STAR’S DETERMINATION. told him something which even you and I must not know just yet, my patient reader. He was nearly as much surprised as he had been to learn of Archibald Sherbrooke’s treachery. ‘‘ My dear,” he said, while his face lighted with pride and joy, ‘‘you shall have your way, and I will do just as you wish, and J-——” He checked himself suddenly, dropped his head in thought fora moment, then resumed: ‘:] am not happy here any more than yourself, and have been thinking for some time that I must go away; but I could not bear the thought of parting from you. Now we will go together, as you wish, unless sf ‘Unless what, Uncle Jacob?” Star asked, anxiously. ‘‘Unless you will let me see this young scamp of a lord, and take him to task for his faithiessness to you.” ‘*Never!” Star replied, proudly. ‘‘What good would it do to Ny ‘“There may be some mistake; he might be abte to explain everything satisfactorily,” interrupted Mr. Rosevelt. Star’s beautiful lips curled. ‘What would his explanations amount to? He is here as as a Suitor for Josephine’s hand—they all confess it; and did you ever listen toa more monstrous story than Mrs, Richards repeated here to-night? To think that he could say anything so basely false of me is almost enough to drive me wild,” Star cried, excitedly. ‘*No, Uncle Jacob; although he has been guilty of the most cruel treachery, I will not contend with him. If he is such a craven that he would try to win a voung girl's heart for the amusement ¢f breaking it, and then seek to blight her fair fame by charging her with what he has imputed to me to-night, he is too far beneath me to be worthy of anything save my supreme contempt, and I never wish to meet him (E(@) GEomicbooks