Stella Rosevelt — page 267: what you’re looking at

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STAR’S DELIGHT. 261 ‘* It’s like a beautiful story, Miss Star,” continued Mrs. Blunt, waxing sentimental, ‘‘to see you here among all these elegant things, for which you were just made, or I’m much mistaken ; and when I see you coming out in all of these lovely clothes, nobody’ll be prouder than I.” ‘““You are very good, Mrs. Blunt, to-be so interested for me,” Star said, with a smile; ‘‘and if what you want is to see me ‘come out in these fine things,’ you will have your wish, for we shall have to take you to Newport with us, as I must have some one to attend me, and I cannot consent to take a stranger.” ‘*That will be almost as good as to come out myself,” the woman said, with a chuckle of delight. Star’s wardrobe and pretty things were all ready at last, and Mr. Rosevelt, who had taken a strange interest in it, for a bachelor, was perfectly satisfied. He had made her elegant presents in the way of jewelry and laces, until she felt almost overwhelmed. ‘‘ Diamonds!” she had exclaimed, her face flushing all over with delight, when, the day before they were to leave, he came into her sitting-room and laid a case in her lap, telling her to open it. He had already purchased her several other sets. but this was the crowning gift of all. She had thought when he had given her some beautiful point- laces, that if she only had some diamonds to go with them she should like it; they were the two things for which she had an especial passion—rich laces and those pellucid stones, like drops of dew which send back the light in gorgeous tints. She would have been content with just a pair of ear-pendants and a solitaire ring—she was content, indeed, without them, but she thought how nicely they would go with her laces; but there, dazzling her eyes upon their velvet bed, were ear-pendants, a cross attached to a beautiful chain, a solitaire ring, and a star for her hair, f Eomicbooks.Go