MRS. SPARKS OF PARIS.
A REALISTIC NOVEL.
By A. CURTIS BOND.
The history of a hopeless love and a desperate crime; a study of woman in her better and her worst phase; a stripping of falsity from femininity, and an insight into the causes that lead woman to passionate love and the abyss of passionate forgetfulness. One of the most remarkable and interesting studies of the season; a character-reading that every one should be familiar with; a psychological and natural picture of life as it is, but as it is seldom regarded.
Beautifully written in the style of the best examples of early French work, a reminder of the diction of Abbé Prevost, with the unjarring ease of "Manon Lescaut," it has a pleasant rhythmic flow which carries the reader spell-bound by the unusual interest of its mystery.
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"AND SOLOMON DAISY, WITH A LIGHTED LANTERN IN HIS HAND, DASHED INTO THE ROOM." Barnaby Rudge.
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was defying my aunt to such a furious extent, that he couldn't keep straight, but barked himself sideways. The more my aunt looked at him, the more he reproached her; for, she had lately taken to spectacles, and for some inscrutable reason he considered the glasses personal.
Dora made him lie down by her, with a good deal of persuasion; and when he was quiet, drew one of his long ears through and through her hand, repeating thoughtfully, "Even little Jip! Oh, poor fellow!"
"His lungs are good enough," said my aunt gaily, "and his dislikes are not at all feeble. He has a good many years before him, no doubt. But if you want a dog to race with, Little Blossom, he has lived too well for that, and I'll give you one."
"Thank you, aunt," said Dora, faintly. "But don't, please!"
"No?" said my aunt, taking off her spectacles.
"I couldn't have any other dog but Jip," said Dora. "It would be so unkind to Jip! Besides, I couldn't be such friends with any other dog but Jip; because he wouldn't have known me before I was married, and wouldn't have barked at Doady when he first came to our house. I couldn't care for any other dog but Jip, I am afraid, aunt."
"To be sure!" said my aunt, patting her cheek again. "You are right."
"You are not offended," said Dora. "Are you?"
"Why, what a sensitive pet it is!" cried my aunt, bending over her affectionately. "To think that I could be offended!"
"No, no, I didn't really think so," returned Dora; "but I am a little tired, and it made me silly for a moment—I am always a silly little thing, you know; but it made me more silly—to talk about Jip. He has known me in all that has happened to me, haven't you, Jip? And I couldn't bear to slight him, because he was a little altered—could I, Jip?"
Jip nestled closer to his mistress, and lazily licked her hand.
"You are not so old, Jip, are you, that you'll leave your mistress yet," said Dora. "We may keep one another company a little longer!"
My pretty Dora! When she came down to dinner on
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THE HEART OF A WOMAN