Rosaleen among the artists

ROSALEEN AMONG THE ARTISTS
ELISABETH SANXAY HOLDING
“ Rosaleen observed that this fiercely scorned and detested sentimentality very often caused people to act with the greatest nobility. While common-sense and enlightened self-interest seemed frequently to bring forth incredible baseness. ”
BY ELISABETH SANXAY HOLDING AUTHOR OF “INVINCIBLE MINNIE,” ETC.
NEW
YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO E. E. S.

No sooner had she got inside the door than the tears began to fall; and all the way up the four flights of dark stairway they were raining down her cheeks. She had to wipe them away before she could see to put the latchkey into the lock.
Everything neat, orderly, familiar; just as she had left it a few hours ago, and all seeming in its blank sobriety to rebuke her for her desperate hopes. She went into her own bare and chilly little room and lay down on the cot there, sobbing forlornly, clutching in her hand the card he had given her—a sort of talisman by means of which she could reconstruct the enchanted hour of that afternoon. She remembered every word he had said, every detail of his appearance. And, recollecting them, wept all the more to think what she must forego.
“ Of course , I’ll never see him again!” she cried. “I’ll have to forget all about him....”