Eleanor Lee a Novel

easy matter to pack the trunks, buy the tickets, and make a quiet flitting. Since the Judge's death, they had been much alone, and Mrs. Lee did not think it necessary to send a good-bye to any except her nearest neighbors, so that when one afternoon Donald Waugh called in fulfillment of his intention not to stay away, he was astonished to learn that all the ladies were absent. Norah volunteered the information that they might remain in Baltimore some months, and Donald turned from the door with the feeling that it had been shut in his face. Vexed with Eleanor before the visit, he was now furious with her mother, and went gloomily homeward in a very bad temper indeed, to find that his sister had invited her great favorite, Mattie Dun- more, to dine and spend the evening. So he had to put his crossness in his pocket for the time. Miss Dunmore was a nice girl, but had little of the charm which belonged to Eleanor Lee. She was just a nice girl, very popular and a thorough gentlewoman. Likewise she was the possessor of what in those days was considered a tidy sum of money, some three hundred thousand dollars. An orphan, she lived with an uncle and aunt with whom she was not quite happy. Rachel had long ago in match making moments, fancied how the fitness of things would be satisfied should Donald court Mattie. As Donald, not in the best of humors, presented himself in the dining-room, there rose to meet him with hand outstretched a compact little lady, trim and neat... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.