Beadle's Dime Novels No. 20: Florida; or, The Iron Will — page 79: what you’re looking at

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HORACE DUDLEY 77 gitated y illness, the management of the property will, of course, as his own daughter, fall upon me. But you, though you have no legal right, shall share in our good fortune; I will do every thing for you, Virginia, that the truest sister should.” “I thank you,” was all Virginia could say. Her heart swelled at the thought of Parker’s loneliness and poverty, rendered doubly appalling in her sight, now that luxuries and wealth surrounded her. Her sister watched her anxiously, but saw no brightening of the eye, no signs of pleasure, and she, too truly, guessed why. Poor Parker! The care was on her mind all day. She tried to divert herself by assiduous attentions to her mother, who had to be repeatedly told of the change in her fortune. But the intruding thought would return. What would come of it all? Could she, much longer, drag this consciousness about, and deceive those who were so near and ought to be so dear to her? There was a weight on her heart that made all her joys bitter. If it could only have been that she had a right to any of this money, she would have taken it, no matter how small the share, and gone with her husband even to the ends of the earth; for she felt, now, since that last interview, how dear he was to her. To be sure, the hot blood shot up into her cheeks as she remembered the story that Florida had told. It must be true. Florida was very cautious and careful—she would never have spoken of it, unless it had been well sub- stantiated. Once again, as she was going down stairs, she encountered Horace Dudley. She could not but be struck with something in his appearance that interested her, and when her sister, who was coming just then into the hall, introduced her, she wondered at the tremulous pressure of his hand. “ Who is he?” she asked, a moment after, when they were alone together. “Tho owner of this house,” Florida replied; “he is just starting for Europe ; but I think, if he has a chance to see you a few times more, by the way he looks at you, he will fee like giving up his tour and staying at home.” Virginia blushed crimson. Perhaps his glances toward her had a somewhat magnetic effect; for the same, or ratner, at impression, that she would not for the world have put into COMIC OOKS.COM y