Stella Rosevelt — page 347: what you’re looking at

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FOSEPHINE’S AMBITION. 341 small cegree of pride at receiving these attentions from lords and baronets, she found herself looking everywhere for one familiar form, one dark, handsome face, which she had never forgotten, and which she knew she should recognize anywhere and under any circumstances, ‘‘NMamma, I wonder if Lord Carrol is here?” she whispered, when once during the evening they happened to be together. ‘‘I don’t know; I will ask Lady Sherbrooke if I have an opportunity,” she replied. _ She managed to get near her ladyship soon after, and asked : ‘*Ts your son out of town, Lady Sherbrooke?” ‘*No; he is not out of town. He had another enzagement to-right, but he said he would drop in in season to take us home,” Lord Carrol’s mother returned. *‘ Ah! there he is now,” she added, as she saw him approaching, and her face lighted with both pride and pleasure, He appeared to be greatly surprised to find Mrs. Richards there, but greeted her politely, although she felt the restraint in his manner which he could not quite conceal. She beckoned to Josephine, who was not far distant, and ‘presented her, with a feeling of pride in her brilliant beauty that she did not try to hide. He shook hands with her, though his face flushed as he remembered the awkward position in which she had placed him at Yonkers by misrepresenting the motive of his visit there. ‘“You did not come to see us again before leaving America, after all,” she said, in tones of playful reproach, when they had exchanged greetings. ‘‘No; my time was so fully occupied that I found it im- possible to make any calls,” he returned, a shade of sadness coming into his fine eves as he thought of Aow his time had been emplo.ed and the unhappiness it had caused him. *“You received my little package, I perceive,” Josephine GomiGcbooks (E(@)