Vashti's Fate — page 255: what you’re looking at

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a o , > 35 Sas. . . +4 ges: Rey 250 A STRANGE VOW. going to keep house together—he and she—in grand Style, too. ‘“‘Could the Everleigh income support such magnifi- cence?” Vashti wrote to ask, and Margery Gresham, with a sort of grim humor, assured her in return, that the treasury was exhaustless. CHAPTER XXIX. A STRANGE VOW. Vashti and Frank had taken a palatial mansion in the most fashionable part of the city. They furnished it from garret to cellar in true reckless style. They furnished, and furbelowed, and garnished, themselves and the mansion. They gave parties, balls, masquerades, soirees, routs, what- ever happened to be the fashion. Frank drove the fastest horses, made the biggest bets, gambled the most recklessly, drank the hardest, and in short gave the strongest evidence possible, that he was galloping to perdition faster than any of them. : Vashti gratified the most expensive whims, made the most extravagant toilets of the season—kept the women crazy with envy, the men with love—but with her most dil- igent efforts was likely to be distanced by Frank in the race on that broad road that leads to destruction. And meanwhile, at Everleigh, Margery Gresham was growing haggard, thin, and old, and was saying often to Nora: ‘‘We could bear to be poor, couldn’t we, my dar- ling, if being poor would save Vashti and Frank?” and Nora, wondering each time more, said, ‘‘ Yes,” always SES." Professor Thorpe was a leading man in an academy of a comicbooks.com « > >