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Title: A little queen of hearts; an international story
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Ogden, Ruth, 1853-1927
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Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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looking Ted squarely in the face, itsan awful pity about you ; there is no sense at all in your going on theway you have. When a fellow has a home and friends and money,there isnt any excuse for that sort of thing. Seems to me itwould be so easy then to keep straight. Ted winced a little under Donalds frankness, knowing all that, laybeneath it. It had sometimes been very difficult for the boy therebefore him, to whom home and money had been always lacking, andfriends as well until within these last few weeks, to live up to thebest that he knew. No boy puts to sea, as Donald had done, with-out coming face to face with some sore temptations, but his wholelook and bearing showed how manfully he had resisted them, andthe earnest honesty of his eyes preached a sermon as they met Teds. It is an awful pity, said Ted, echoing Donalds words, and DONALD TURNS VALET. hating his own record more than any one else could hate it; hutall that is left me is to try and mend matters. The only comfort is
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WHY DONT YOU GO UP TO LONDON AND HUNT HIM UP? that Ive come to my senses at last. A great many never do, youknow. 198 A LITTLE QUEEN OF HEARTS. Mr. Harris, said Donald, who had been listening to Ted anddoing his own thinking at one and the same time, there was anEnglishman came over on the steamer with us, who grew to be greatfriends with Marie-Celeste, and Marie-Celeste told me all about himone of those afternoons when I was too weak to do anything but liein my berth, and she tried to entertain me. She said he was abachelor, and rich as could be, and she thought the best thing thatcould happen to him would be to do somebody a good turn with hismoney. If you feel that you want to keep this matter sort of quiet,just between gentleman and gentleman (which was a phrase Donaldhad heard Mr. Harris use, and was glad to be able to appropriate),why dont you go up to London and hunt him up ? He lives atone of the big clubs. You could easily find him. His name wasBelden. At this Ted gave a star

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