A Struggle for a Ring — page 90: what you’re looking at

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f 86 THE PARTING. at pool, Lord Carsdale saw that his wife’s face was very pale, and her eyes bore traces of tears. ‘‘What is the matter, Ailie?” he asked, abruptly. He could never endure tears in a woman, and that this woman, to preserve whom he had sacrificed so much, should shed them, amazed him. ‘‘ What is the matter?” he repeated. ‘Nothing, Vivian, but that I felt dull.” Dull, with all your friends about you!” he cried, in amaze. ‘‘Why, I thought you were the happiest of the happy. Ido my best to make you so.” _ ‘You are very good to me,” she said, gratefully. -“¢Then, Ailie, do not cry. I think if one thing in this world irritates a man more than another, it is to see his wife cry.” ‘<’Then you shall never be irritated, Vivian,” she said; and he smiled, well content. : ‘‘T am going at noon to-morrow, Ailie,” -he said ; ‘‘you had better begin your arrangements for remaining at home.” CHAPTER XII. THE PARTING. ‘*Do not write to me, Ailie, until I have written to you,” said the young husband. x He was standing in the little parlor at Cecil street, mak- ing his adieus, the family grouped at a respectful distance, Frank wondering whether he would get the long-expected tip or not. Alice was only anxious over one thing—that + comicboo CSE