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BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. CHAPTER V. DOES HE LOVE HER? 25 A Mr. W——, one of the proprietors of the bindery where our heroine worked—a junior partner, but the chief manager of the concern, was a single man, not yet forty, in the very prime of life. He was, as a man, not as a fop, very good-looking. His stalwart frame, well-developed, showed his American birth; but his full, round, rosy face spoke also of his Eng- lish paternity. He had thus far in life been too busy to think of matrimony, and, living with his parents, who were in easy circumstances, he had never known the want of a home, or the need of a wife to make home bright. His sisters, of whom he had two, considerably younger than himself, had ever seen to his linen—his tailor looked to his wardrobe —he had little to trouble himself about. He be- longed to a coterie or club of bachelors, and was never at a loss about a place to spend his even- ing’s in. But that day, when the wealthy and influential Mr. Legare had told Hattie Butler that she deserved to be in a higher sphere, had opened Mr. W——’s eyes—opened them to the wonderful beauty as well as the surprising talent of the girl who had worked at low wages without a murmur for over two years in his shop. He had noticed her quiet modesty in contrast with the boldness of other girls often before, but that the background. very shrinking modesty had also kept her beauty in And that very afternoon he had taken occasion in mn 900 (fo) S) (Efe)