[The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic]@TWC D-Link bookThe Damnation of Theron Ware CHAPTER V 1/19
CHAPTER V. While Mr.Ware stood thus on the doorstep, through a minute of formless musing, the priest and the girl came out, and, somewhat to his confusion, made him one of their party.
He felt himself flushing under the idea that they would think he had waited for them--was thrusting himself upon them.
The notion prompted him to bow frigidly in response to Father Forbes' pleasant "I am glad to meet you, sir," and his outstretched hand. "I dropped in by the--the merest accident," Theron said.
"I met them bringing the poor man home, and--and quite without thinking, I obeyed the impulse to follow them in, and didn't realize--" He stopped short, annoyed by the reflection that this was his second apology.
The girl smiled placidly at him, the while she put up her parasol. "It did me good to see you there," she said, quite as if she had known him all her life.
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