Stella Rosevelt — page 218: what you’re looking at

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212 ( FRUITLESS EFFORTS. The good woman sat down and wept bitter tears over this brief note, for she had learned to love the bright, kind-hearted girl who always had a cheery word for her. She knew the house would never seem the same again without her. Thea she went down to tell the news to her master. She “met John Mellen in the hall, who had come with the intelli- gence that Mr. Rosevelt left the lodge early that morning, taking all that belonged to him—‘‘ which »as not much, yer honor,” ke volunteered, and he handed Mr Richards a note which the old gentleman had left for him. CHAPTER XXI. FRUITLESS EFFORTS. Mr. Richards and his family were thrown irto considerable confusion by the double surprise which this mornipse revealed to them. He was really a kind man at heart, and had been very much troubled by the way that his wife had conducted herself toward her aged uncle, and also by her unteeling usage of Star. Mrs. Richards, however, found it difficult to conceal her satis- faction at the turn events had taken. She kept her own -ounsel regard:nz her knowledge of what had transpired during the in- terview be:ween her husband and the young lord; neither did she consider it necessary to mention the stormy scene which had occurred at the ludge the previous evening, in which she was SO prominent an actor. | ‘Josephine shall have everything her own way now,” she thought, exultantly; ‘‘at all events, ‘haf gir/ shall never triumph over my daughter by becoming Lady Carrol.” Gomicbooks-Gco =}