Angela's Busines
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共 68 题- ANGELA'S BUSINESS
- BY HENRY SYDNOR HARRISON
- COPYRIGHT, 1914 AND 1915, BY HENRY SYDNOR HARRISON
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHARLES HAD NO GREAT CHANCE TO SHOW HIS FEARLESSNESS OF PUBLIC OPINION
- ANGELA PEEPED OVER INTO WASHINGTON STREET
- THIS SPINSTER SUPPLIED A QUIET CHARM
- ANGELA'S BUSINESS
- Similarly his employer resumed his composition:--
- II
- He said suddenly:--
- Halfway up the steps, he looked back over his shoulder, and said:--
- III
- Now he read over his forgotten words with cool judiciality:--
- IV
- WILLCOX BROTHERS COMPANY.
- VI
- The girl looked up, in surprise. "Going to work? You mean in an office?"
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- Charles's gaze became fixed. "But you're going to, aren't you?"
- Here his wandering glance fell presently upon this:--
- DEAR MR. GARROTT [wrote Angela from the bedside]:--
- ANGELA FLOWER.
- XI
- DEAR MR. GARROTT:--
- WILLCOX'S WEEKLY.
- 2. Blank and Finney do. do.
- He almost exclaimed: "Do you know German?"
- He pondered. "That means you do know it?"
- XII
- Angela read:--
- DEAR MISS FLOWER:
- CHARLES KING GARROTT.
- Then she cried out: "Oh, _please_ don't mention Mrs. Ashburton!"
- A. F.
- Tommy's response came at bedtime:--
- TOMMY.
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- Charles's head came slowly round. "How about what?"
- XVI
- XVII
- He hardly repressed a sardonic laugh. "Are you asking me to help _you_?"
- XVIII
- Now the dim forms were rising together, the tall Doctor's with a jerk:--
- XIX
- Charles, smiling slightly to himself, gave the address, and prompted:--
- Dipping up his watch again, Donald said suddenly: "Seen Mary lately?"
- XX
- A small silence preceded his controlled reply "Oh, yes!--I saw him."
- He spoke rather confusedly: "What was it? Is anything the matter?"
- XXI
- Angela's mother stood two steps farther down: "_Angela!... Angela!_"
- XXII
- How had he known this? "Well?"
- XXIII
- Silence: and then the hard voice went on rapidly:--
- Looking up, she said: "You seem to have thought of everything."
- XXIV
- Mary glanced up at him. "I'm taking this with a little salt--shall I?"
- And now he heard her voice, as tender as a mother's:--
- THE END
- By Henry Sydnor Harrison
- End of Project Gutenberg's Angela's Business, by Henry Sydnor Harrison