That is why I am always eager to accept if he invites me to go anywhere with him." The passengers thronging the platform--"stretching their legs" after the confinement of the tedious railway journey--eyed these two girls admiringly.

Beth was admitted a beauty, and one of the society journals had lately announced that she had few peers in all the great metropolis.

Chestnut brown hair; dark, serious and steady eyes; an exquisite complexion and rarely regular features all conspired to render the young girl wonderfully attractive.

Her stride was athletic, free and graceful; her slender form well poised and dignified.

Patsy, the "plug-ugly," as she called herself, was so bright and animated and her blue eyes sparkled so constantly with fun and good humor, that she attracted fully as much attention as her more sedate and more beautiful cousin, and wherever she went was sure to make a host of friends.
"See!" she cried, clasping Beth's arm; "there is that lovely girl at the window again.