[Trumps by George William Curtis]@TWC D-Link bookTrumps CHAPTER III 5/10
But as the regulations of the school confined every boy, without especial permission of absence, to the school grounds, and as Abel had no acquaintance with Mr.Burt and no excuse for calling, his worship had been silent and distant.
He was the more satisfied that it should be so, because it had never occurred to him that any of the other boys could be a serious rival for her regard.
He was also obliged to be the more satisfied with his silent devotion, because never, by a glance, did she betray any consciousness of his particular observation, or afford him the least opportunity for saying or doing any thing that would betray it.
If he hastened to the front door of the church he could only stand upon the steps, and as she passed out she nodded to her few friends, and immediately followed her grandfather into the carriage. When Gabriel Bennet came to Mr.Gray's, Abel did not like him.
He laughed at him.
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