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Оглавление“My lady comes at last,
Timid and stepping fast,
And hastening hither,
Her modest eyes downcast.”
She greeted the stranger with a Puritan undemonstrativeness, and as if not exactly aware of his presence.
“I should like to have gone to vespers if I had known,” said Mr. Lyon, after an embarrassing pause.
“Yes?” asked the girl, still abstractedly. “The world seems in a vesper mood,” she added, looking out the west windows at the red sky and the evening star.
In truth Nature herself at the moment suggested that talk was an impertinence. The callers rose to go, with an exchange of neighborhood friendliness and invitations.
“I had no idea,” said Mr. Lyon, as they walked homeward, “what the New World was like.”
