A Struggle for a Ring — page 43: what you’re looking at

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SAVING A WOMAN’S HONOR, 39 ‘“‘T must be cautious,” said Lord Carsdale; ‘though I do not think that any one here knows me.” He sent a porter to purchase the tickets, and in a few minutes they were going as fast as steam could take them to London. ‘“What should we have done,” asked Alice, ‘‘if we had been late for this train?” He laughed with his superb ease. ‘** We should have found our way out of all difficulties,” he said; ‘‘the secret of success is a strong will and deter- mination.” | How he remembered those words in after years, when strong will could not befriend him and determination was of no use, ‘‘Alice,” he said, gently, ‘‘close your eyes and try to sleep.” ‘'To sleep! She could have laughed at the words. To sleep, with all this wonder stirring in her heart—sleep, on the very threshold of fate! It was not possible; yet the idea of disobeying him never occurred to her mind, She closed her eyes, and he believed she slept. She had read wonderful old German legends, she had read of miracles; but nothing that she could remember was half so strange to her as her own story. Only yester- day she had been thinking of her future, and she had decided that her life would have to be one of very hard work and very litile pleasure; now, how changed all was. She was dazed and bewildered, as one who, after being long in utter darkness, comes suddenly into brilliant light. To do her justice, just then she did not remember his worldly rank—she never thought of it; she was lost in — wonder that she should ever be his wife! She never said _ to herself that she should be Lady Carsdale; but, looking a ‘ set (elo)