[Vandover and the Brute by Frank Norris]@TWC D-Link bookVandover and the Brute CHAPTER Two 11/29
Geary stared back at them, following them with his eyes until they had gone by. All at once he began laughing and pounding on the window. "Oh, for goodness sake, quit!" exclaimed Vandover in great alarm, twisting off the window-seat and shrinking back out of sight into the room.
"Quit, Charlie; you don't want to insult a girl that way." Geary looked at him over his shoulder in some surprise, and was about to answer when he turned to the window again and exclaimed, grinning and waving his hand: "Oh, just come here, Skinny; get on to this, will you? Ah, come here and look, you old chump! Do you think they're nice girls? Just take a _look_ at them." Vandover peered timidly around Geary's head and saw that the two girls were looking back and laughing, and that the one with the red cape was waving it at them. At supper that night they saw the girls in the gallery of Memorial.
They pointed them out to young Haight, and Geary at length managed to attract their attention.
After supper the three freshmen, together with two of their sophomore acquaintances, strolled slowly over toward the Yard, lighting their pipes and cigarettes.
All at once, as they turned into the lower gate, they came full upon the same pair of girls.
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