Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 11 — page 80: what you’re looking at

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%8 THE PRISONER OF LA VINTRESSE. by no means to be despised. He did not know that gratifica- tion of self was her main object, and that nothing is more likely to call for eloquence than a plea for our own wants, a recital of one’s own wrongs or pleasures. “Tt strikes me that we will go to Saratoga,” said Manuel after some moments of thought. His heart leaped at the bare supposition of meeting Minerva Monserate. He loved her with a true and fervent passion that threatened to be as last- ing as it was sincere. Dora exulted inwardly. To see Saratoga, was the climax of. her traveling ambition. She had heard exaggerated ac- counts of its fashions, its resorts, its occupants, and her vain little heart fluttered at the possibility of the sensation and the conquests she might make. Visions of rich dresses stretched out before her imagination; she was as ambitious as Senora Mancha herself. It was settled that in three days at the least they would start for the far-famed watering-place. Meantime, Manuel engaged rooms. comlclbooks.com