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Excerpt from Three on a Tour
As I turned the key I locked all thoughts of business within, and my freed mind sprang instantly to the-old subject.
The image of the sweetest girl in the world rose before me, and I wondered how many more long years of waiting there must be before, instead of cheerlessly wending my way to the lonely bachelor quarters which were now my abiding place, I should turn from my office to my own home, where she would be waiting my coming.
With a sigh I donned my hat and coat and as I opened the door, came face to face with a small messenger boy. He held a dainty note in his hand, on which, at a glance, I recognized the delicate tracings of my darling's hand. It bore my own name, and I hastily tore it open and devoured its contents. It simply bade me come to her as soon as I had the leisure. It was a pleasant summons, which I gladly obeyed, W'ithin an hour I was sitting by her side, gazing into her dear eyes, while I listened.
I had been waiting patiently for two long years for her to decide between love and duty.
She had a young sister, frail, delicate, an almost hopeless invalid, with a beautiful face, full of the story of suffering, and of its patient overcoming.
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