This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...did so discover. No sooner had Rosalie Gansevoort learned the truth from her indulgent and genial father than she flamed UP with fiercest indignation. "Papa," she cried, "do you actually mean that he's--he's an impostor?" "That's decidedly how it looks." Rosalie burst into fiery tears. "I will never marry him--never!" she avowed. That night she received a long letter from Maturin, full of passionate entreaties for her pardon. She read it, cried over it, and inclosing it in a new envelope, redirected it to the writer. "You are an artist and quite ignorant of music, my father tells me," she scrawled on a card which went with the returned note. "Your art I certainly have excellent reason to admire. Perhaps if you had more music in your soul you'd scorn to treat me as you have done." She told her father, a little later, just what course she had taken. He watched her in silence for a while, and she perceived that his eyes were full of a brooding and subtle pity. "So, you've broken with the young man forever?" he asked. "Yes, yes! " Rosalie tried to say very harshly. And then she added, with a rebuking fall in her voice: "I should think, papa, that you would be very glad." "And why, pray?" "Oh, my conduct in making that advance to him! It seems to me that you've not scolded me half enough for it!" "My dear girl, when you first told me of it I shuddered with horror, and afterward, if you'll remember, I gave you a terrific scolding." "No, no!" contradicted the girl, gnawing her lips. "You behaved, when all is said, papa, with the faultiest sort of leniency." "My dear Rose," returned her father, leaning backward in his...