Stella Rosevelt — page 223: what you’re looking at

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FRUITLESS EFFORTS. 217 ‘her, ‘‘that she went away to meet him last Saturday, and that was why she was rigged out so. ‘That must be the secret of her insolence to me. She knew she was soon to become Lady Carrol, and she was trying how it would seem to lord it over me.” : ‘“You forget, Jcsephine,” interposed her mother, ‘‘ that she did not know anything about his title, and so you are all wrong in your surmises. ” eS ‘+ }rue,” she replied, somewhat crest-fallen; ‘‘ but when do you suppose he engaged himself to her?” ‘¢T am sure I do not know—very recently, he said. I tried to make her tell me about it last night, but I couldn’t get a word out of her. One would have thought, by the way that she facedg me, that she was already my lady somebody. But I reckon I fixed it so that she will not be at present. I made her think that his lordship had told the story in a way to make her appear as ridiculous as possible, and she has gone away, be- lieving him to be as faithless as it is in the power of man to be;” and the hard-hearted woman threw herself back in her chair with a sigh of satisfaction at the thought. ‘‘It isa shame, anyhow. Everything has gone wrong, and I—I really was fond of him,” Josephine confessed, with a pas- sion of tears. ; Mrs. Richards’ face darkened. She never could tolerate any- thing which interfered with the desires and whims of her only child. | ‘“Well, we will not give up hope, even yet,” she said, trying to speak comfortingly. ‘‘We shall go back to Brooklyn next week, and we will try to see him as often as we can. We will visit his studio, and look at his pictures and those of his friends, and if he is unsuccessful in his search for that girl, he may turn to you again for comfort.” ‘‘T cannot get over it that se, with her great eyes and yellow hair, should have attracted him and won him, when we have Eboo =) Si =) { (E(e)