Stella Rosevelt — page 230: what you’re looking at

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224 THE GOAL REACHED. In clear, bell-like tones she began her acdress, without the slightest appearance of self-consciousness or embarrassment, roiling out sentence after sentence iu the smoothest and purest of French, until those who were well versed in the language wondered at such proficiency in one so young, while those who could not understand it were spell-bound by her exquisite voice and graceful gestures. Star had been well taught in French before coming to this country, until it had become almost like her native tongue; therefore, after a year of arduous study under the best of teachers at the Normal Co!lege, it is not strange that she should have been chosen, on account of her purity of accent, to deliver the French oration, ‘‘Who is she?” questioned one of the visitors of a teacher. ‘‘Miss Gladstone,” she answered, pointing to the name on the programme. ‘¢ How lovely she is, in that simple lace bunting, trimmed with its knots of blue ribbon, and those blush-roses in her belt!” ‘¢So I think,” the teacher replied, with an affectionate glance at Star. ‘‘She has only been with us a year, however. She was hardly up to the mark when she entered the class, although she came highly recommended by Professor Roberts, of Brookiyn. Our standard, you know, is very high. But she was anxious to enter the senior class, and assured us that she would not drag, and said she was particularly anxious to gradu- ate this year.” : ‘‘And she has done well, Iam sure,” the visitor said, bending another admiring glance upon the fair graduate. ‘She has been one of the most brilliant scholars of the class. Her recitations have been wonderlul. I do not think she has made a single failure during the entire vear. If she had been with us throughout the course, she must have taken the valedic- } =} (E€(0) Ehbooks.co =