A Struggle for a Ring — page 240: what you’re looking at

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236 “HE IS MY HUSBAND.” Alice blushed crimson; she hardly knew what answer to give. | ‘‘T was reading it to Lady Waldrove,” she said, ‘‘and have brought it with me. J——” Then she stopped abruptly. Both ladies were too deeply engrossed to notice any emotion of hers. | ‘‘A telegram!” repeated Lady Gertrude; ‘‘it must be from my brother. If you read it to mamma, Miss Der- went, I may surely see it. Will you give it to me?” Silently enough she placed the telegram in her hands. Lady Gertrude read it through, with a smile on her lips; then she turned to the beautiful woman by her side. ‘¢My brother is coming home, Lady Ethel,” she cried ; ‘*he will be here to-day.” : Alice, looking at Lady Ethel, saw what she imagined to be almost a transfiguration. The loveliest color flushed her face, the loveliest light came into her eyes, and the young wife turned away, sick at heart with a jealous pain she could not describe. _ Lady Gertrude went at once to her mother’s room. Lady Ethel turned away with a smile, so sweet and beautiful Alice was dazed with it, and she herself was free to go to her own room, and think what it was best for her to do. He was coming that very day—the idea seemed almost more than she could grasp. In a few hours from now she should see him. How often, how many hundred and thousand times had she pictured this meeting, under every form possible! Now it was really about to take place; but how different to anything she had ever pictured. _ She had woven a beautiful vision when she first came to Roseneath—it was of serving his friends so assiduously, so faithfully, so well that she should win their affection, that by dint of her own great love she should win their love ; Gomicbooks CeCe)