[McTeague by Frank Norris]@TWC D-Link bookMcTeague CHAPTER 9 19/59
Ah, this Uncle Oelbermann! That's what it was to be rich.
Not one of the other presents produced so deep an impression as this. After Old Grannis and the dentist had gone through the rooms, giving a last look around to see that everything was ready, they returned to McTeague's "Parlors." At the door Old Grannis excused himself. At four o'clock McTeague began to dress, shaving himself first before the hand-glass that was hung against the woodwork of the bay window. While he shaved he sang with strange inappropriateness: "No one to love, none to Caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness." But as he stood before the mirror, intent upon his shaving, there came a roll of wheels over the cobbles in front of the house.
He rushed to the window.
Trina had arrived with her father and mother.
He saw her get out, and as she glanced upward at his window, their eyes met. Ah, there she was.
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