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Patty went "home," and stayed there for two years; but it was never home to her, though all her friends and connections, save one, were with her -- because that one was absent. She saw "the great Alps and the Doge's palace," and all the beauty and glory of that great world that she had so ardently dreamed of and longed for; travelling in comfort and luxury, and enjoying herself thoroughly all the while. She was presented at Court -- "Miss Yelverton, by her sister, Mrs. Kingscote Yelverton" -- and held a distinguished place in the _Court Journal_ and in the gossip of London society for the better part of two seasons.
She was taught to know that she was a beauty, if she had never known it before; she was made to understand the value of a high social position and the inestimable advantage of large means (and she did understand it perfectly, being a young person abundantly gifted with common sense); and she was offered these good things for the rest of her life, and a coronet into the bargain. Nevertheless, she chose to abide by her first choice, and to remain faithful to her penniless press writer under all temptations.