A Struggle for a Ring — page 57: what you’re looking at

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A SHOCKED HUSBAND. } 53 rather a sentimental kind of name; it sounds as though the girl bearing it came from the country, and was very simple.” She raised her beautiful head after a spirited fashion all her own. ‘‘T do not agree with you. The queen did not think so; she named her daughter Alice. I have seen the Princees Alice, and I do not think there isa more noble lady in any land than she.” ‘*Where did you see her?” ment for a few minutes. ‘‘T saw her in Germany with her husband, and I felt quite proud that my name was Alice.” , Then her whole manner changed and became subdued. «Still, if you do not like it, the sound of it will never be pleasant to me again.” The beautiful blue eyes grew dim with tears; he did not see them. . ‘‘Your father or mother gave you the name of Alice,” he continued; ‘‘now I will give you one much prettier, and you will like it better, because it is of my choosing. I should like to call you Ailie.” She repeated the word after him—spoken by his lips it had a certain music no other lips could give it. ‘¢You will make me very happy,” she said, in her sim- ple, innocent, worshiping way. — ‘* Ailie,” he said over again to himself; ‘‘yes, I like that name—it sounds as though you belonged to me—‘ Ailie Carsdale.’ I am glad that is settled; I did not like Alice at all, yet the name suits you. Alice in a poem always has those lovely blue eyes and shining wealth of fair hair.” Then he talked of other things; but while she lived Alice never cared again for her own name. | he asked, forgetting his argu- comicbooks (G0)