Stella Rosevelt — page 300: what you’re looking at

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204 cae f LOVE HIM STILL.’ upon the more serious questions of life—all of which was very encouraging to her who had so often been wounded by his bitterness and skepticism. CHAPTER XXX. ‘‘y LOVE HIM STILL.” “The first of the week following the events just related, Mrs. Richards and her daughter were suddenly ‘‘recalled to Brooklyn.” Newport had become, as Miss Meredith had prophesied, ‘too hot for them.” They were gone almost before any one knew that they con- templated going; and, it must be confessed, that it was a great relief to both Star and Mr. Rosevelt when they learned of their flitting, and knew they would be obliged to meet them no more. Star had recovered her usual health and strength, but she had suffered such a shock that she could not meet or see a dog . withouta feeling of fear and an almost overpowering weakness, and she never entirely outgrew this feeling during her life. She had seemed unusually thoughtful, too, since the event. Most people, noticing it, thought it but natural, considering the fearful danger she had been in, but Star had a very different reason for it. lhe moment she had returned to consciousness and found herself in Ralph Meredith’s arms, seen his agonized looks, heard his tones of fear, realized the passionate, sthough trem- bling clasp in which she was held, the terrible throbbings of “ ecomicbooks (E(0)