Thrice Lost, Thrice Won — page 258: what you’re looking at

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” all “Post Tenebras Lux!” the papers teemed with it; it created a furore unprecedented. . 253 his oaughter’s husband, sailed for France. Mrs. Rutherford declined being one of the party. and remained in New York. The romantic story got wind at once, of course, and was the nine-days’ wonder of the city. The people talked of it, But Estella and her husband were far away on the “heaving sea,” and all their new celebrity fell harmless. Mr. George Waldron pulled his tawny mustache, and - looked plaintive. . “Tt 1s better to be born lucky than rich. My grandmother To - used to say so; and gad! I believe the old lady was right. think of the luck that fellow Bartram has come to, while bet- ter men go begging! The women always adored him; his _ pictures sell like wildfire; two fortunes fall to him together; - and now a third, -and the loveliest wife under a starry sky. ~ By Jove! it’s enough to make a man go and cut his throat.” af THE END. .> ? ‘ 4 - _ a ; rt "} i, 3 *. A x my (=. ‘4 (E(0) m boo (E(@) cS