[What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Answer? CHAPTER I 4/12
I'll help her in! no, I won't,--she will think I am chasing her.
Nonsense! do you suppose she saw you at the window? Of course! No, she didn't; don't be a fool! There! I'll get into the next stage.
Now I'll keep watch of that, and she'll not know.
So--all right! Go ahead, driver." And happy with some new happiness, eager, bright, the handsome young fellow sat watching that other stage, and the stylish little lace bonnet that was all he could see of his magnet, through the interminable journey down Broadway. How clear the air seemed! and the sun, how splendidly it shone! and what a glad look was upon all the people's faces! He felt like breaking out into gay little snatches of song, and moved his foot to the waltz measure that beat time in his brain till the irate old gentleman opposite, whom nature had made of a sour complexion and art assisted to corns, broke out with an angry exclamation.
That drew his attention for a moment.
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