Stella Rosevelt — page 116: what you’re looking at

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‘ \ 5 FILTHY LUCRE. During the absence of the family, Mr. Rosevelt frequented the house, for it was much more comfortable through those hot September days than his contracted room at the lodge, and he was glad to avail himself of the privilege of the well-stocked library to while away the long hours of Star's absence. In the evening she would entertain him with her music, while on Saturday they both felt like children out of school ; and thus day by day they grew to feel a deep affection for each other. ‘She at least does not love me for my money,” the old man would often mutter to himself, with a grim smile, after receiving some thoughtful attention from the young girl; ‘‘her affection is sincere and disinterested, and I pray that her gentle heart may never become seared and hardened by the cold world.” He had long ago learned just how Star was regarded by the family, and how they had attempted to degrade her to the level of acommon servant, and this did not tend to make him enter- tain any deeper respect for them. His information on this point he had gathered chiefly from - Mrs. Blunt. Star would not talk about it, always evading or changing the subject in a dextrous way that amused him in no small degree. Meanwhile Josephine and her mother were flourishing among the fashionable at Long Branch. The season proved to be a very gay one; every hotel was crowded, and many noted people from various countries were - sojourning there. Among others, the Richardses heard upon their arrival, there was a young English lord of great reputed wealth, havin ‘was said, the largest rent-roll in Derbyshire, England. “They say he is the handsomest man in the place, as well as the richest,” Jcsephine said to her mother, the night after their arrival at the gay watering-place, having heard this piece o, it (E(0) =) O) Ebooks (E(0)