Beadle's Dime Novels No. 20: Florida; or, The Iron Will — page 7: what you’re looking at

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FLORIDA; OR, THE IRON WILL CHAPTER I. THE BACHELOR. “Horace DuDLEy.” That was the name on the door-plate, and the man whe answ cred to it was both wealthy, and, in the best sense of the word, an aristocrat. He sat in his study, a handsome, resolute man, inditing a paragraph for his favorite morning paper, which, for want of a wife, he always sat down with at table. ec What was the man thinking of? Advertising for a rim keeper, and offering fearfully good wages to that as yet unseen © ~ personage, when there were no less than nine or ten pretty, — marriageable girls in that very street, each ready and willing ‘to become his housekeeper, stipulating for no wages except board and clothes—and—a husband. s __ “ ¥es, yes, I know—too ready—altogether too willing ;” ~he suggested, laughingly, to a friend who called in and hinted as much, while he was busy concocting the adyertise- ment. A larger, handsomer and bolder type # beauty was that of the new-comer. “ Altogether too ready,” he repeated, the saucy fellow “There's Miss Angela Smythe, so very charmingly attired! always smiling toward some imaginary friend as I drive up the street. There’s Anne Bradbury, to whom I hinted that blue was my favorite color, making herself hideous—for she’s — so dark, you know: how can I help thinking that it’s on pur. pose to attract me? ‘No, Le Roy, I'll tell you what:T once — 7 Ccopniclroolksne ee ee