At a Girl's Mercy, or, The Fortunes of War — page 240: what you’re looking at

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THE SELECT SERIES OF Popular American Copyright Stories, BY NOTABLE AUTHORS. a eset TE By INO. 15. The Virginia Heiress By MRS. MAY AGNES FLEMING, AUTHOR OF “Guy Earlscourt’s Wife,” * A Wonderful Woman,” “One Night’s Mystery.” A tame story has never come from the vigorous and versatile pen of May Agnes Fleming. ‘‘The Virginia Heiress” is a pleasantly written, yet powerful and life-like narrative of a flesh-and-blood hero- ine, who talks and acts as many self-willed beauties are inclined to talk and act. It is the short-lived romantic dream of a young woman of culture and refinement, accustomed to all the luxuries of wealth, whose mental vision at first does not range beyond the rose-colored haze of the honey-moon; but she at length descends from the clouds of the lovers’ dreamland, with eyes wide open, and stares this startling fac. clearly in the face—she has married a poor man! He is not only poor—far worse than that; heis the associate of ‘‘*men who dress for dinner by taking off their coats and dining in their shirt-sleeves,” PRICH, 25 CHN'TS. STREET & SMITH, Publishers, P. 0. Box: 2734. 3l Rose Street, New York, =) Eomicbhooks,. co