A Struggle for a Ring — page 19: what you’re looking at

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A MEETING, AND A PROMISE. 15 The child looked wistfully at him. ‘“T love music,” she said ; ‘‘but I do not like dancing.” These words decided the doctor ‘Let it be as I wish,” he said; and the ena con- sented. So Alice Derwent was sent to Germany for her educa- tion, and she received a good one. . She remained there * until she had reached her seventeenth year, then she was to return home. She spent some weeks with her parents, then, without an invitation, went to Ladywell to see the doctor—entered that stronghold of bachelorhood much to the doctor’s dismay. ‘*You here!” he cried, in dismay, when he saw a tall, beautiful, slender girl standing with outstretched hands before him. ‘‘T am here to thank you, uncle, musical voice. ‘“ Yes, yes—very well; that is all right, of course; but 3 she said, in a clear, * you must not come here, Alice. I allow no woman under — forty to enter this house.” Alice raised her lovely eyes in wonder. ‘‘Under forty! Do tell me why, uncle—tell me why?” CHAPTER II. A MEETING, AND A PROMISE. , An additional shade of severity came over the face of Doctor Wallis. ; ‘‘T should have imagined,” he said, ‘‘ tt even a child ge GEomicboo : Col