First Love Is Best; A Sentimental Sketch (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. AS time went on, Katherine's school retreated farther and farther into the future, and the farther it went the less persistently and win- somely it beckoned to her. Her life was so full, calls upon her time, her ingenuity, her sympathy, were so many, that she seemed to have neither space nor leisure for a plan. Even her Latin and German studies slipped away from her, and the stars and the under-world were left very much to themselves, while she became absorbed in the concerns of this world. So much absorbed that a footstep on the threshold quite startled her. She looked up, however, to behold only the very honest face of a neighbor, Mr. Glynn. To be sure, Kitty would quite as soon have been left alone to her own busy, happy thoughts; but Mr. Glynn's look was so hearty and cheery that she flung open the wire doors and welcomed him in, at first with politeness, and then with real hospitality. "Have you just come from the city, Mr. Glynn?" " Yes; I have not even been home." " Did not my father come down in the train with you?" " No;. I saw him half an hour before I left, and he begged me to call and say to you that he should not be able to come until the late train, and then he would like you to send Donald to the station for him." " You may say to the gentleman that you delivered his message faithfully, but that I declined to comply, and insisted on going myself." " But I shall add that, foreseeing this insurrection, I forestalled it on the way up by determining to take Miss Katherine for a drive, and bringing her father from the station at the end of it." " O," replied Katherine, joyfully, " that would be delightful. Go immediately home. Go at once, and get jrour supper, that we may lose no time." "Does it not occur to you, Miss Haviland, that it ...