Stella Rosevelt — page 388: what you’re looking at

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382 REHEARSING THE PAST. color in her cheeks, her eyes sparkling from the excitement of the moment, and with that light laugh just leaving her red lips! - Why should she not be happy, Star thought, bitterly, as the wife of one of the noblest men in England, and occupying one of the proudest positions in the land? A heavy sigh involuntarily escaped her, and, hearing it, Jo- sephine turned quickly to see whence it came. ‘«Stella Gladstone!” she exclaimed, and instantly all the ‘ color went out of her face, all the light from her eyes, the laughter frcm her lips, and she stood regarding the beautiful girl with lowering brow and angry eyes. CHAPTER XLI. REHEARSING THE PAST. Star arose as she addressed her thus, and with the act a]l her pride arose as well. -*“ Yes,” she said, speaking with cold politeness. ‘‘I suppose you are surprised; you did not expect to meet me here, Miss— Lady Carrol.” Josephine’s face lighted at those last words, and a wicked gleam leaped into her black eyes. ‘No, I did not,” she returned, trying to call a happy smile to her false lips. ‘‘And—and—you hawe heard, then?” and, dropping her darkly fringed lids as if in confusion, she played with some flowers which she held in her hands, and looked the modest bride to perfection at being addressed by the title she had so lately assumed. ‘“Yes, I have heard of—or at least I saw your marriage in a Eomichooks. Go