Stella's Fortune, or Love the Conqueror (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The speaker was Mrs. Newton; the person addressed was her daughter Stella, upon whose beauty Lord Mast mion had passed so decided an encomium, and the scene was the small drawing-room of Mrs. Newton's villa at Hyde Park Corner.

As a slight pause followed the lady's enunciation of a well-known axiom, we will fill it by remarking that Mrs. Newton was a thin, pompous lady, good at heart, but of lofty ambition, whose sole aim and object in life was m see her daughter Stella well married.

Mrs. Newton came of a, trading stock; her husband. Whom Lord Marmion had spoken of as old Daniel, W of trade also; he had made money, and Mrs. Newton was endeavoring to impress upon her daughter the necessity of a solemn watchfulness of the main matrimonial chance.

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