Stella Rosevelt — page 285: what you’re looking at

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RESCUED FROM A HORRIBLE FATE. 279 daughter, but with an angry gleam in his eyes, he led Star from the room, shutting the door, with no gentle sound, after them. : ‘‘Did you ever hear anything like it!” Mrs. Richards said, hopelessly, after they had gone. ‘«No, indeed ; and it is just as you suspected—he was playing poverty all the time,” Josephine answered. ‘¢Oh, if I could only have known it!” groaned her mother, to whom the calamity appeared to grow more appalling every moment. ‘‘He makes a perfect fool of himself over that girl,” snapped Josephine, ill-naturedly. ‘‘ Just think of the amount of money it must have cost to deck her out to-night.” ‘‘T am going back to our hotel,” Mrs. Richards said, rising, with a desperate air. ‘‘Il am not going to stay here to see her play the fine lady and crow over us.” ‘(I’m ready to go. I’ve had enough of this thing, and I never did like the House very well, anyway,” replied her daughter, in no amiable tones. CHAPTER XXVIIL RESCUED FROM A HORRIBLE FATE. If Mrs. Richards had conducted herself according to her own inclination, she would have left Newport at once. But she was unwilling that Mr. Rosevelt or Star should think that she had run away from them, or that she was heart-broken over the dis- . closures which her uncle had made to her. Besides, Newrfort was full of wealthy and fashionable people, (E(0) Eomichbooks