Stella Rosevelt — page 99: what you’re looking at

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CHANGE OF FORTUNE, 93 ‘‘Paul Pry” in petticoats stole from Star's little bower and glided unobserved to her own room, having accomplished her object in securing the coveted cameo, and vented her spite upon the offending girl for having dared to outshine her in the presence of her father. Later, when Star went up to her little sanctum and found both pin and book gone, she surmised at once who had been there. The loss of the bock she did not mind so much, although she was reading it and had been obliged to lay it aside in the midst of a most interesting chapter; while she knew that when Josephine had read it she would doubtless throw it one side, and she could easily get it again. But to lose the cameo —that precious gift of kind, handsome Archibald Sherbrooke—was more than she could bear with either patience or fortitude, and a passion of tears testified to her grief for her loss. She knew that it would be useless to appeal to Josephine for it; she could not prove that she had taken it, and she would doubtless feign astonishment and innocence if questioned re- garding it, and unless she could regain possession of it by Strategy, it was, she feared, lost to her forever. A week subsequently the family repaired to their country residence at Yonkers, where they usually spent the hot months, excepting a few weeks’ sojourn at some fashionable watering- place or mountain resort. Here Star, who had been told that she was to have the use of the music-room whenever she wished, began her work in earnest, and gave six hours a day to hard, faithful practice. Wednesdays and Saturdays, however, she went into New York to take her lesson, Mr. Richards having arranged with one of the first teachers for her instruction. In spite of Mr. Richards’ commands to the contrary, she persisted in doing many little things to assist Mrs. Blunt, although she was relieved from all GOmMmicbdooks (E(0)