Amorelle by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill [Hill, Grace Livingston]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781624160486
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-05-03T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

George didn’t come to see Amorelle the next night, but he called her up on the telephone and called her “darling.” It startled her, but it touched her, too. She had been deciding against him all that day, but when she heard he had to take the evening train for Chicago on business for his office, there came a feeling almost like disappointment. She found she had been looking forward to his coming. She wanted to see if some of her impressions of the night before still held. For instance, that beautiful light in his eyes, that sort of tenderness that had been almost unbelievable and had pled for him against her strongest arguments. If that was real, could she afford to throw it carelessly aside, even though in many ways his upbringing had not been like hers?

She turned away from the telephone with a lonely feeling, and then hugged herself that she had it. Perhaps she did care a little for him after all. Perhaps it was as he said, that she would learn to love him in that fervid way she had always thought lovers loved.

He sent her a big, elaborate box of candy from Chicago. Louise discovered it and kidded her about it. She was annoyed as she felt the color coming into her face, yet there was a strange satisfaction in having the family know that somebody cared enough to send her something.

She thought about that afterward, searched her heart, and told herself that was just pride; it was self-love, and it was a dangerous thing to have around when she had a question like this one to decide.

Sometimes she told herself she hadn’t any question, that it was just ridiculous, that of course she couldn’t even think of marrying a young man like George. She tried to think of George as having been a son-in-law of her scholarly father and shivered a little. She saw for an instant her father’s clear, keen, kindly eyes resting on George as she had known him in these few short months, and somehow the thing seemed impossible to consider.

Yet her father had not been a snob about scholarship. This young man was in a business that was good and honorable. What was it about George that made her feel he didn’t fit with herself? She still wasn’t sure she could love him, but that would probably settle itself when she knew him a little better and had a chance to be with him and think of him in the light of a lover. Was it that there was something innately unrefined about him? She wasn’t even sure of that. All young men and girls nowadays used impudent language that was not what she had been brought up to use, but perhaps these were things that a young man would outgrow, just customs of his environment.

So she reasoned with herself during his absence and found her mind distracted from her Bible study greatly. Well, there was a point. If

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