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They said good-bye at the gate. Billy betrayed awkwardness that was sweet to Saxon. He was not one of the take-it-for-granted young men. There was a pause, while she feigned1 desire to go into the house, yet waited in secret eagerness for the words she wanted him to say.
“When am I goin' to see you again?” he asked, holding her hand in his.
She laughed consentingly.
“I live 'way up in East Oakland,” he explained. “You know there's where the stable is, an' most of our teaming is done in that section, so I don't knock around down this way much. But, say—” His hand tightened2 on hers. “We just gotta dance together some more. I'll tell you, the Orindore Club has its dance Wednesday. If you haven't a date—have you?”
“No,” she said.
“Then Wednesday. What time'll I come for you?”
And when they had arranged the details, and he had agreed that she should dance some of the dances with the other fellows, and said good night again, his hand closed more tightly on hers and drew her toward him. She resisted slightly, but honestly. It was the custom, but she felt she ought not for fear he might misunderstand. And yet she wanted to kiss him as she had never wanted to kiss a man. When it came, her face upturned to his, she realized that on his part it was an honest kiss. There hinted nothing behind it. Rugged3 and kind as himself, it was virginal almost, and betrayed no long practice in the art of saying good-bye. All men were not brutes4 after all, was her thought.
“Good night,” she murmured; the gate screeched6 under her hand; and she hurried along the narrow walk that led around to the corner of the house.
“Wednesday,” he called softly.
“Wednesday,” she answered.
But in the shadow of the narrow alley7 between the two houses she stood still and pleasured in the ring of his foot falls down the cement sidewalk. Not until they had quite died away did she go on. She crept up the back stairs and across the kitchen to her room, registering her thanksgiving that Sarah was asleep.
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appreciation
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profanation
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daguerreotype
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conjecture
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psyche
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necromancy
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sublimely
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震颤( tremor的名词复数 ); 战栗; 震颤声; 大地的轻微震动 | |
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bosom
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grit
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amazement
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warrior
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