[Miss Billy's Decision by Eleanor H. Porter]@TWC D-Link bookMiss Billy's Decision CHAPTER VI 6/21
She had pinned the pink now to the outside of her long coat, and it made an attractive dash of white against the dark-blue velvet.
Billy was looking particularly lovely to-day.
Framing her face was the big dark-blue velvet picture hat with its becoming white plumes. During the brief minutes' wait before the clanging locomotive puffed into view far down the long track, Billy's thoughts involuntarily went back to that other watcher beside a train gate not quite five years before. "Dear Uncle William!" she murmured tenderly.
Then suddenly she laughed--so nearly aloud that a man behind her gave her a covert glance from curious eyes.
"My! but what a jolt I must have been to Uncle William!" Billy was thinking. The next minute she drew nearer the gate and regarded with absorbed attention the long line of passengers already sweeping up the narrow aisle between the cars. Hurrying men came first, with long strides, and eyes that looked straight ahead.
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