Stella Rosevelt — page 117: what you’re looking at

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FILTHY LUCRE. Ii! of news, with much else, from an intimate friend. ‘‘ All the girls are wild about him,” she pursued. ‘‘ Annie Falkner was introduced to him yesterday, and says he is as charming in conversation as he is in appearance. ” ‘“FHlow old is he?” asked Mrs. Richards, pricking up her maternal ears at once over this wonderful information. ‘‘About twenty-one or two, Annie thought he might be. He has been traveling in this country for a year, just to see a little of the world before settling upon his own estate. It is whispered,” the eager damsel went on, with flushing cheeks and sparkling eyes, ‘‘that he has heard of the beauty of American ladies, and is on the lookout for a handsome wife ;” and Josephine tossed her head with a conscious smile, as her eyes wandered to the reflection of her own fine face and figure in an opposite mirror. ‘That is somewhat doubtful, I think, since the English nobility are very jealous regarding marriages outside the pale of their own rank. However, such things are happening every year now, and this young lord may be captivated by some of our American beauties, after all ;” and Mrs. Richards bestowed a glance of pride upon her handsome daughter, and thought how delightful it would be to figure as mother-in-law to an English lord, and to be able to say, ‘‘my daughter, Lady So- and-So.” That evening Josephine Richards, the most brilliant girl in the ball-room of the Howard House—the hotel where they were stopping—was made supremely happy by receiving an in- troduction to Lord Carrol, of Carrolton, Derbyshire, England. One look into the frank, handsome eyes of the manly. stranger, one touch of his hand, one tone of his rich, musical ” voice as it vibrated in her ears, and she knew that she had met the man whom she should love with the one great passion of her life. ) cee PR mS | He was tall, with a well-developed form, straight, strong, and Gomichooks. Go =)