Stella Rosevelt — page 327: what you’re looking at

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“YOU ARE THE TRAITOR.” 321 my lady is a delightful hostess, besides having two of the love- liest daughters in the world.” ‘‘Such an inducement as the latter Iam unable to resist,” Ralph responded, with a smile. ‘‘I will come with pleasure.” ‘‘ You're a sensibie fellow, ° replied young Alden, as, linking his arm familiarly in that of his friend, he led him away. Ralph found Stamfield House a delightful place, Lady Stam- field all, and more, than Herbert Alden had promised him in the way of a hostess, and the Misses Stamfield, young ladies of eighteen and twenty, pretty and talented, and entertaining ‘enough to make an hour or two pass very agreeably. He was very cordially received upon being presented by his friend, and introduced to a number of pleasant people, and he began to think that he had not seen the best side of London after all, since he had not heretofore been favorably impressed with its citizens. After he had danced two or three times, young Alden sought him again, and took him away to the billiard-room, which, for that evening, had been set apart for a smcking-room. ‘‘T want to introduce you to some fine fellows,’’ he said, on the way thither, ‘‘ ‘bang up’ boys, we should say in America, wno will give you a good time while you stay here.” He found a dozen or twenty young men gathered in the billiard room, and‘was introduced to several of them by his friend. He spent half an hour very pleasantly there, and then hegan to think that it was time that he was getting back to his hotel, for it was a long distance from that portion of the city. He stood by the billiard-table alone for a moment, waiting to bid young Alden good-night, when suddenly he heard his voice at his elbow, introducing him to ‘‘ Lord Carrol, of Carroiton.” He half put out his hand, glanced up at the stranger, started, GEomichboo cS (E()