Excerpt: ... in her bosom, where no fear foreshadowed what remained for him to say. Her confidence was so complete in him, now that he had come, that she would have been satisfied, so she believed at that hour, if he had said: "I was unable to come sooner; I am sorry." 184 For love is content with little while it is young. Agnes thought of her prettiest dress, tucked away in the little steamer-trunk, and brought it out. It was not extremely gay, but it was light in color and fabric, and gave a softness to the lines of the ...
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Excerpt: ... in her bosom, where no fear foreshadowed what remained for him to say. Her confidence was so complete in him, now that he had come, that she would have been satisfied, so she believed at that hour, if he had said: "I was unable to come sooner; I am sorry." 184 For love is content with little while it is young. Agnes thought of her prettiest dress, tucked away in the little steamer-trunk, and brought it out. It was not extremely gay, but it was light in color and fabric, and gave a softness to the lines of the body, and a freshness of youth. And one needs to look carefully to that when one is seven-and-twenty, she reflected. Her fingers fluttered over her hair; she swayed and turned before the glass, bringing the lines of her neck into critical inspection. There was the turn of youth there yet, it comforted her to see, and some degree of comeliness. He would come soon, and she must be at her best, to show him that she believed in him, and give him to understand that she was celebrating his triumph over the contrary forces which he had whipped like a man. Faith, thought she, as she sat by the window and looked down upon the crowd which still hung about the land-office, was a sustaining food. Without it the business of all the world would cease. She had found need to draw heavily upon it in her years, which she passed in fleeting review as she looked pensively upon the crowd, which seemed floundering aimlessly in the sun. All at once the crowd seemed to resolve into one personality, or to become but the incidental background for one man; a tall man with a slight stoop, whose heavy eyebrows met above his nose like two black caterpillars which had clinched in a combat to contest 185 the passage. Here and there he moved as if seeking somebody, familiarly greeted, familiarly returning the salutations. That morning she had seen him at the head of the line of men waiting to file on land, close beside Peterson, who believed himself to be Number...
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Good++ No Jacket. 5200 shelf. With ads. 1923 Christmas note & stamped name FEP, same name stamped at back. Soiled endpapers. Good reading copy J. Allen St. John frontispiece. good++, no dj, soiled taupe cloth, tight & solid 352 pgs.
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