The Wheel of Life by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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page 80 of 447 (17%)
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"Well, some few madmen have thought otherwise," remarked Gerty, adding immediately, "and so you met Laura. Oh, you two! It was the irresistible force meeting the immovable body. What happened?" He regarded her quite gravely while his cigarette burned like a little red eye between his fingers. "Nothing," he responded at last. "I didn't meet her--I merely glimpsed her. She has a pair of eyes--you didn't tell me." Gerty nodded. "And I forgot to mention as well that she has a nose and a mouth and a chin. What an oversight." "Oh, I didn't bother about the rest," he said, and she wondered if he could be half in earnest or if he were wholly jesting, "but, by Jove, I went overboard in her eyes and never touched bottom." For a moment Gerty stared at him in blank amazement, in the midst of which she promptly told herself that henceforth she would be prepared for any eccentricities of which the male mind might be capable. A hot flush mantled her cheek, and she spoke in a voice which had a new and womanly ring of decision. "You would not like her," she said, "and she would hate you." With an amused exclamation he replaced his coffee cup upon the table. "Then she'd be a very foolish woman," he observed. |
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