Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 11 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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AN ENTICING INVITATION. 89 “But, where shall I go?” asked Minerva; the pathos in her countenance transferred to her voice. “I do not wish to be recognized by those I have known before.” “] was about to suggest,” continued the young man, “ that my sister is very lonely (as I am away much of my time necessarily), and wishes often for a companion, She informed me privately, to-day, that she had fallen in love with you, and that it would be charming if she might prevail upon you to share her society while we remain in New York, which will not be for long. Here is something she has written on the subject.” Minerva took the delicately worded note, her expressive face betraying the pleasure she felt that any one should be so interested in her. “ She is very kind,” she said thoughtfully. “And may I say that you will come?” asked the young man eagerly, gazing at her with new and delighted admira- tion, which she would hardly have liked had she seen; “ there you can live in as strict seclusion as you like, and together, we will, I think, manage Don Carlos.” This last maneuver decided her. It seemed so pleasant to have found friends, real friends; a woman who possibly might understand her; a man who was too noble to recognize the claims of an usurper like Don Carlos. “ Yes, if you think she will not weary of me, I will go.” “Or, rather that you will not weary of her,” said Senor Abrates; an exultant fire lighting up his dark eye. “She is the veriest little chatterbox, and will, I think, sometimes, jab- ber to death.” “If you knew how I desire to have some one talk to me,” she said, her fine eyes growing moist as she recalled the long, silent days passed in her little chamber; “you would feel how grateful that chattering you talk of, will be tome. Oh! how I have longed even for a little bird to have beside me, and sing to me sometimes.” “ flere is the address, I will leave every thing with you,” he said, with instinctive delicacy. “ You have only to summon a waiter and order him to call a carriage, then give this direc- tion to the driver, and in fifteen minutes you will find Dora waiting for you, all expectation.” ~ cEComicbookszcom