A Struggle for a Ring — page 18: what you’re looking at

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el Si tA YOUNG WOMEN NOT ADMITTED. I never have enough to eat—l have hardly any clothes to wear—lI long to learn something sensibie; 1 am so tired of dancing and the sound of the violin. Do be kind to me, uncle, and send me to school.” The doctor looked, and saw what even he knew to be a most lovely child standing before him—a child with a fair face and great starry eyes, a profusion of fair silken hair ‘falling over a white neck. ‘<Send me to school, uncle,’ will try to be a clever girl.” The words that really won him were those in which she declared she was tired of the sound of the violin. ‘“T should think so,” he said to himself, Then, noting the exquisite beauty of the girl, he said to himself, with a sudden impulse of generosity: ‘‘I will save her; if she grows up pretty ang clever they will be quite sure to make an actress of her, or a dancer, or something of that terri- ble kind. I will save her. What is your name?” _** Alice,” was the brief reply. Doctor Wallis looked down at her. “‘If I send you to school, Alice, clothe you, educate you, will you promise me to be a good woman?” “Yes, I will, I will, indeed,” she replied, earnestly. ‘‘Try me, uncle.” He went back into the room. ( “Fanny,” he said to his sister, ‘‘this child seems pretty, | clever, and ambitious. I will educate her; I will find out a fitting school for her, and will send you money to prc= vide her with clothes.” _. He saw his sister's face fall, not brighten. » ‘““Are you not pleased?” he asked, calmly. ‘“Alice is our best pupil,” said Mrs, Derwent; ‘‘her dancing would have brought us something in soon.” | 3 she repeated ; ‘‘indeed I : . comicbooks.com