The Widowed Bride — page 230: what you’re looking at

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THE WIDOWED BRIDE. 221 but newly gained, and Rena never knew how much the struggle cost him! Here.ends our story. From poverty to wealth, from beggary to rank—from a schoolgirl’s coquettish wiles to the fullness of such a love as might ennoble a queen—from a coarse garment of a charity refuge to the glittering coronet of a peeress—these were the contrasts and changes of Rena Percival’s life. And now when the beautiful Marchioness of Balfour looks back upon the troubled current of her past existence it seems to her like the winding mazes of a dream! But do we not all know that truth is stranger than fiction? [THE END. | “A PROUD DISHONOR,” by Gente Ho.rzMEyer (Mrs. Sydney Rosenfeld), will be published in the next number (76) of THE SELECT SERIES. <S (ee) a GEomicboo