A Struggle for a Ring — page 140: what you’re looking at

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136 A DREAM BY THE SEA. won the peerless young beauty, who seemed disposed, in her proud fashion, to smile on him. He tried to comfort himself with the old formula—it was for honor’s sake; but the words fell without meaning this time, and he began to think he had not known what honor was. CHAPTER XIX. A DREAM BY THE SEA. The wedding was over; the Duke and Duchess of Claver- don had taken their departure for Hever Court, where the honeymoon was to be spent, and many of the guests were preparing for departure. Lady Pierpont, after much press- ing, had consented to stay until the Friday following; she had made a great favor of it. ‘*We ought to be at Steele Castle,” she said; ‘‘ but since you are so very kind, Lady Waldrove, and dear Ethel is enjoying herself so much, I think we will remain; but we must positively go on Friday.” ~~~ They had been so happy together—the man who had married so imprudently, and the beautiful belle for whom marriage was expected to do so much. It had been a summer idyl, a summer poem; they had lingered together ’ in the sweet, fragrant gloaming, together they had listened to the chanting of the star-lit sea; they had ridden through green-shaded lanes, and, sending the horses home, they lingered on the mossy banks and in the green meadows; they had walked through the cool, shaded depths of the (E(O) Al (C ool)