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RS. GARDENIER looked
lnvimzly at her pretty
miuyrhier as she put the last
touvhes to 8 perfect toilet.
Rosalie turned trom a long
and returned her mother‘: glance.
was a look on the sweet (ace that was
almost. petulant.
"What is it, dear"?
with “your; ‘dress?
You're not stlikxiled
asked the devoted
right. mother dear.
Rosa-
her
"The dress in all
but I'm dinastiiled with myself."
lie’: tone was despairing:
hy7" protested Mrs. Gardcnier.
"But w
"You’ve never'looked ioveiier In fact.
you seem sn swovt and girll its a.
lull 0! adgnilrintv m<"YL
t’! ‘J ' '
. j-rha
1 ," ('nmplilJnP.<l 1;nmiie.-
pjlimndgomeg and clover.
l'9upl(- 2101) got tired 4Il' EA blotlilv dull.
but the)’ nrver 51,9! tired Oi’ listening to
at clever woman."
"VVEII. You Just wait." said her mother.
smiling. “This is your ii at bull, and
you'll haye lots of admirers. and Will
.want to divide your attentions among
Mrs. Garrlenler spoke modestly, but it
W35 3 well-known fact [hilt ll(‘l' hus-
hand‘: Bll(‘('('RS as is hyslvlnn was due
to her extraordinary tart and
personality.
"But I'm not thllllging of that kind (If
cievernesa." puruued Rosalie. ‘'1 mm trill
little at the plane, but “'fl.<mn, our
chambermaizi, can sing much better than
and she sang it infinitely better than 1
ca .[y embroidery isn't hnll as well
done-as the thingy you buy in the store,
and i‘m tom the girls who make that are
paid eight dollars a week. Then take
French and Italian. I thought to master
those tongues was a reiinvd accomplisih
ment until we went to Europe last year,
and the Chauffeurs and Cabmen swore at
us in French and Italian."
5 liver mother
stared at her El ong time in amazemen
‘‘There’s no place in the world for 3
bluestocking." she declared, at last.
Rosalie threw up her hands. “You've
purposely misunderstood me," she re-
nionstra ed. ‘Tm thinking at the wives
of great men who have helped to make
‘their husbands famous. Tall, dark; mag-
nmcent women, with black hair and
spzlrltiini: 4-3‘: -4, whose look is :1 uummaiul
Lintl whose wish is law."
Mrs. Gardcnier smiled induigently at
her romantic child.
“Such types are rare." sho answeroi],
"and seldom use their gifts in the right
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cause. Consequently they are more tear-
ed than loved."
Rosalie returned to the mirror. The
rem-ctimi she saw there would ave dea
lighted the most critical, Perfect fea-
tures and exquisite coloring: hair. eyes,
cheeks and lips were faultless, and the
pretty little rounded figure was divine.
“VVL-ii. dark or a r. s e ispered
half aloud. “I'm satisfied if Herbert: loves
ne."
Mrs. Gardenier sighed and looked anx-
iously at her daughter. . .
"I hoped." she said. approaching the
girl and putting her arm around her
ondly, "that you would begin ‘your first
smisun unrotterml by any early attach.
nw i ' very fond of llcrbcrt Dunbar,
nnui there’: no doubt he's one 0! the men,
who will he heard from in the World.
rich;
It's only fair that
But your will mos.-t. many others.
hzmdsomv, and brave.
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