Stella Rosevelt — page 307: what you’re looking at

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in “a A NOBLE RESOLUTION. 301 ever meet him, he would not recognize in Lord Carrol the man of whom she had told him- CHAPTER XXXI. A NOBLE RESOLUTION. ~. ‘ ‘¢VYou will remember that you have promised that I am still to be your friend; you will not avoid me and deny me the pleasure of your society because of what I have told you to- night?” Ralph pleaded, as he and Star drew near the entrance of the park, and knew that they would soon be rejoined by his sister and Mr. Rosevelt. Star looked up at him with a grave face. ‘*You shall still be my friend. I will not avoid you if you wiil promise me that you will build no false hopes upon our friendship,” she said. | ‘‘How can I, when you tell me that there is no hope?” he asked, yet his voice trembled and was full of pain. ‘‘May I continue to visit you when you return to New York ?” he resumed, after a moment. ‘‘Certainly, as one friend would visit another. You have made my stay here very pleasant, and I should be very sorry not to.see you occasionally, while Grace has become almost like a sister to me.” The young man thanked her with glistening eyes, and with — a pang at his heart, as he thought how fondly he had hoped to make the two girls sisters, and how rudely his bright dream had been broken. Then they passed out at the gate, where they found Mr. Rosevelt and Grace awaiting them. Gomicbhooks: Go