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Updated: June 28, 2025
I wonder if she'll wear an engagement-ring." The supper hour came. Fluff took her seat among the smaller girls; her face was radiant enough to satisfy the most exacting, but her small dimpled fingers were bare. "Why do you all stare at my hands so?" she exclaimed once. "It's on account of the ring," whispered little Sibyl. "Hasn't he given you the ring yet?" "Who is 'he, dear?"
As Evelyn raised her hand to fasten her night-robe, through the accidental opening of which I had caught sight of my repudiated treasure, I noticed on one of her slender fingers, from which all other incumbrances in the way of rings had been removed for the night, a circlet of plain gold such as is generally used for the symbol of the marriage-rite, an engagement-ring, I then supposed it.
Cope saw a long string of gifts and entertainments, a diamond engagement-ring, a lavishly-furnished apartment ... How in the world could he himself have compassed all this? And how blessed was he among men that he had not been obliged to try! Hortense went through some motions with her brush, yet seemed to be looking beyond him rather than at him.
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