Beyond The Rocks

ht it hard that she should have had to take this situation, instead of Sarah or Clementine, her elder step-sisters, so much nearer his age than herself

iful wife was wha

o live at Bruges and inexpensive foreign sea-side towns, required a strong motive; and this Josiah Brown found in the deliciously rounded, white velvet cheek of Theod

d retired Guardsman, had had just sufficient sense to insist upon magnificent settlements, certainly prompted thereto by Clementine, who inh

odora a huge allowance, and have it all fixed and settled by law beforehand. She is such a fool a

things were arranged to the satisfaction of all parties concerned e

creed, more or less inspired by papa himself. But when it came to the scratch, and Josiah Brown was offered

one or two peeps at smart old friends of papa's, landed from stray yachts now and then, at out-of-the-

unate enough to move in their sphere, but husbands-never! and there was no use Theodora protesting this

of a stiff-necked, unforgiving old earl; she had bequeathed her child, besides these gentian eyes

s needs, and the romantic temperament

tle bride got into the train for Paris, accompanied by a fat, short, prosperous, middle-class English hu

as bald and his figure far from slight. He had a l

blue stars swimming with tears. The two daughters left to him were so plain, and he hated plain people about him; but, on

ars a comfortable balance at his bankers, and could run up to Paris himself in a few days, and

t this time prosperously, to a fabulously rich American-his well-born relations would once more welcome him with open arms, he felt sure, and visions of the

ite rose in the station. "Hope to Heavens Sarah prepared her for it a bit." Then he got into a fiacre and drov

on our way back," he decided, "but at first, in case there's scenes and tears, it's better to be a number than a name." Mademoiselle Henrie