Beautiful but Poor — page 111: what you’re looking at

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a 102 BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. CHAPTER XXII. JESSIE ALBEMARLE. “Miss Hattie,” said Mr. W——, just as the people were leaving work, and she was rising from her table, ‘please put this letter in your pocket, read it after you have had your supper, and think over its contents. Do not hurry your thoughts—I will wait patiently for an answer after you have well con- sidered what I have written. Let days pass, if you choose, I will not urge a reply; I only ask it after you have given the matter thought. ’’ She looked up at him with her earnest, truthful eyes, for she noticed that his voice trembled, and almost intuitively she felt that that letter contained a declaration of what his eyes seemed to speak when they met her look—love. , She put the letter in her pocket without a word. She could not have spoken at that moment. — For, noticing his agitation, a strange tremor came over her. He turned, blushing, and went toward his office, while she, putting on her hat and shawl, turned toward the door. At that moment she saw the stately form of Mr. Legare in front of Mr. W——, and ‘the foreman had scarcely spoken to him when Mr. W—— called to her. ‘The millionaire had come-in person to see the poor — working girl—to hear her decision, and to ask of- ~her a favor. ‘*‘Miss Butler, excuse me that I called at this hour, I knew you would be disengaged, and perhaps could do me a great favor if it is not already done Comicbooks