Stella Rosevelt — page 312: what you’re looking at

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306 A NOBLE RESOLUTION. Star was a first-rate traveler, Miss Meredith a most pleasant companion, and they all regained much of their accustomed spirits before it was over, and Mr. Rosevelt congratulated him- self that he had planned most wisely. . ‘‘T think itis charming to travel in this way,” Star said, one day while they were at Niagara; ‘‘just a few of us who enjoy each other, stopping when we choose, going on when we like, and having everything our own way. I think there is nothing so pleasant as traveling.” ‘‘How would you like to go to California and the Yosemite Valley?” Mr. Rosevelt asked. ‘<I think I should like it,” she answered, enthusiastically. | ‘*Will you go this fall?” ‘‘Oh, Uncle Jacob, aren’t you tired? Do you not need to go home and rest after so much dissipation?’ the young girl asked, but her eyes sparkled and her cheeks flushed with an- ticipation. | ‘Do you call it dissipation to travel?’ he asked, smiling at her eagerness, ‘‘I enjoy it almost more than anything else.” ‘* ‘Almost more,’” Star repeated, quickly. ‘‘ What would you enjoy more?” ‘To see you perfectly happy,” he replied, tenderly; ‘‘ and,” he added, ‘‘I believe that traveling does you fully as much good as anything else. We will go home and rest a week, then we will start for the far West. What do you say to my plan?” Miss Meredith’s face lighted. ‘“Say ‘yes’ to it, by all means, Star,” she said, ‘‘and—lI will go with you, if you wil! have me.” ‘“Tf we will have you,” Star returned, with daficing eyes. “Why, I think it would be the very nicest thing in all the world—we three, with Mrs. Blunt to look after us, do have such delightful, cozy times.” 7 ‘“T have been wishing for just such an opportunity for a long Gomicbooks (E(0)