A Struggle for a Ring — page 60: what you’re looking at

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56 A SHOCKED HUSBAND. the proudest woman in England, say? What would his sisters think? Even while the idea pained him, he thought to himself how wonderfully true the girl’s nature was, how naturally noble, fearless, and brave. How many girls in her posi- tion would have given themselves airs beyond number— would have affected all kinds of falsehood! She said, simply : | ‘‘Tam nota lady, because I have not had the training of one.” He admired the fearless words, even while he deplored the need for speaking them. The day following he under- stood better what she meant. ‘We will not dine at the /adle d'hole,” he said to her; “there are always so many English people in Paris, I should be certain to meet some one whom I knew, then it would be awkward. We will order dinner in our own sitting-room. ” Ailie locked very charming in her pretty dinner-dress, with red roses in her fair hair, and a cluster of red roses in her dress. Lord Carsdale smiled when he saw them. _ ‘Roses are my favorite flowers,” he said; ‘‘they are the _ queen of flowers. I should like to imitate the ancients and dine in a room carpeted with rose leaves.” From that moment she loved the beautiful flowers with _ passionate love. She smiled acharming smile, and quoted ~ tohim some beautiful lines of Goethe’s in perfect German, - then they sat down to dinner toget er, ** After all,” thought he, as he looked at the beautiful face and graceful figure, the white hands and lovely arms, ‘fafter all I might have done much worse. She is very lovely, very clever, and I do not see any great 3 He stopped abruptly—a pause of, to him, unutterable ~ comicboo (SCO