Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 11 — page 87: what you’re looking at

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ttle hands, at .which she looked in unfeigued ast onish- “JT shall not want half of this,” she said; “only think— one hundred dollars! ‘it seems so much to spend at one time.” Minerva laughed quietly. “I used togive mote than that » fer one dress alone,” she said; “but as I look at it now, after having wanted for a dollar, it does not seem right to spend that way.” “More than that for one dress!” exclaimed Jessie; “why, pray, how much did that cost ?” _ “Oh! it cost three hundred and fifty dollars for the mate- rial alone. It was what they call a kincob, of East Indian manufacture; thick silk, worked all over with gold thread, Bet my uncle paid for all these things. I remember his get- ting me a muslin once, so very fine that it looked like a web, and, in fact, when wet, could not be seen at all. It, was very ~ expensive and beautiful.” “Why! how wealthy your uncle must have been!” ex- claimed Jessie, whose hundred dollars seemed now quite in- ificant.. “ Yes,” Minerva replied in her quict way; “he was, I ex- pect, immensely rich.” “ And so is this old Cuban general. at. the hotel.” Jessie aed see tele. She had been forbidden. to mention the arrival in the presence of Minerva. The latter looked up, a startled query in her eyes. Seeing _ the confusion in Jessie's face, her white lips trembled out , “For heayen’s sake, what do you mean, my j A Cuban general in Saratoga? Then it must be my uncle. reperageib ory ate Oh, where shall I ) now 2” anwontedly agitated, she " reason, was quite Saeed es er aughterstronghleene “ Was your uncle’s name the same as your own?” she asked Minerva. “Yes, Monserate—General Limenes de Monserate,” said the se - “Then make yourself easy, for that is not the name. This conmicloooks. conn