Stella Rosevelt — page 270: what you’re looking at

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264 STAR’S DELIGHT. education? I am almost inclined to think so,” laughed her friend, bending an admiring glance upon Star’s beautiful face. ‘“No, indeed. Don't go to weaving any romances about me,” she answered, flushing slightly, ‘‘for I am only plain Star Gladstone.” ‘‘But ‘plain Star Gladstone’ belongs to a very good family, nevertheless,” interrupted Mr. Rosevelt, who had overheard the latter part of their conversation, and would not allow Star to depreciate herself; whereupon Miss Meredith did feel at liberty to ‘‘romance” a little on her own account. Star was asked for some music, and delighted her listeners with her exquisite playing. Miss Meredith and her brother sang a charming duet, and after an hour spent in the most social manner, they took their departure, having formed numer- ous plans to be carried into execution when they should meet a week later at Newport. ‘‘ Miss Gladstone is the loveliest girl I have ever met, and you wouldn't let me get a word in edgewise with her, Grace,” Ralph Meredith said, in a grieved tone, after they left the house. ‘Are you ‘star’-struck so soon, brother mine? You'll have opportunities enough to ‘get your words in’ widthways during the next few weeks, and you can comfort yourself for your dis- appointment to-night with the thought that I was paving the way to glory for you,” laughed his sister. ‘‘Were you not surprised to learn that she is English?” she asked, thoughtfully. | . _*Yes, rather; for I have been told that English girls are not very pretty; but she is wonderfully beautiful.” ‘‘ What will you wager that she does not turn out to be some lady of high degree?” ‘“Pshaw! Grace, you are always imagining some unlikely story or other. You should not read so many novels. Don't put her entirely beyond our reach, if you please. It is quite ‘comicbooks