Excerpt: ...the evening's festivities in the pale, languid, feverish beauty that was seated at her desk. "Dear Helen, you are weary; ill, perhaps," exclaimed her gentle cousin. "You have pg 103 entered too soon into gay society, and you suffer for the public restraint in private." Her cousin looked steadily in her face, and then smiled one of those bitter disdainful smiles which it is always painful to see upon a woman's lip. "Sit down, Rose," she said; "sit down, and copy this letter. I have been writing all night, and yet ...
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Excerpt: ...the evening's festivities in the pale, languid, feverish beauty that was seated at her desk. "Dear Helen, you are weary; ill, perhaps," exclaimed her gentle cousin. "You have pg 103 entered too soon into gay society, and you suffer for the public restraint in private." Her cousin looked steadily in her face, and then smiled one of those bitter disdainful smiles which it is always painful to see upon a woman's lip. "Sit down, Rose," she said; "sit down, and copy this letter. I have been writing all night, and yet cannot get a sufficient number finished in time, without your assistance." Rose did as she was desired, and, to her astonishment, found that the letters were to the inhabitants of a borough, which Mr. Ivers had expressed his desire to represent. Rose wrote and wrote; but the longest task must have a termination. About one, the gentleman himself came into the room, and, as Rose thought, somewhat indifferently, expressed his surprise, that what he came to commence, was already finished. Still he chid his fair wife for an exertion which he feared might injure her health, and evinced the strongest desire to succeed in rescuing the people of L
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