Stella Rosevelt — page 385: what you’re looking at

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STELLA’S MENTAL AGONY, 379 enough to the casual observer, 4e noticed the quick catching of her breath as she heard the familiar name, and remarked the flush which leaped into her hitherto pale cheeks, and which, although pain had caused it, enhanced her loveliness tenfold. ‘It is Archie’s sister,” Star said to herself, as their two white- gloved hands met, and a thrill of keenest pain shot through every nerve. ‘“ How lovely she is!” she added. ‘‘ Her eyes are like his in their expression, although not in color. Oh! I should have loved her, I know; and how rashly I have thrown all my hap- piness away !” It needed all the power of her will to sustain her as she stood there beside Miss Sherbrooke, apparently so calm, and chatted with her for the next fifteen minutes; and Vivien never mistrusted the wild emotions which were surging in the heart of her new acquaintance, with whom she was exceedingly pleased. ‘* How perfectly charming she is!” she thought, as for a mo- ment Star turned to speak to Ralph, and she studied her face more closely. Then she started violently. Surely she had seen that face somewhere before-_those great, earnest blue eyes—that white forehead gleaming through a golden mist—that straight, delicate noSe, and those beautiful red lips. Yes, surely it was the face that her brother had painted when he was in America; only there was a look of pain in those eyes now that there had not been then; there were tense lines about the small, sweet mouth, and a seriousness about the whole countenance which told that the passing years since then had not been full of unalloyed pleasure. It was the same, nevertheless, she felt convinced, and she resolved that she would find Archie, point Miss Gladstone out to him, and ascertain if she were right in her surmises. Ebooks =) (E(0) (E(o)