[Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPut Yourself in His Place CHAPTER VI 42/56
Henry's was of this sort; and, as he swung along through the clear brisk air, the world seemed his football once more. This same morning Jael Dence was to go to Cairnhope, at her own request. She packed her box, and corded it, and brought it down herself, and put it in the passage, and the carrier was to call for it at one.
As for herself, four miles of omnibus, and the other seven on foot, was child's play to her, whose body was as lusty and active as her heart was tender and clinging. She came in to the drawing-room, with her bonnet and shawl on, and the tear in her eye, to bid Miss Carden good-bye.
Two male friends would have parted in five minutes; but this pair were a wonderful time separating, and still there was always something to say, that kept Grace detaining, or Jael lingering; and, when she had been going, going, going, for more than half an hour, all of a sudden she cried, out, "Oh! There he is!" and flushed all over. "Who ?" asked Grace, eagerly. "The dark young man.
He is at the door now, miss.
And me going away," she faltered. "Well then, why go till he has paid his visit? Sit down.
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