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"I expect to be some busy, but maybe I'll drop in and bed down with yuh; once I hit town, it's hard to tell what I may do." "I hope you'll feel perfectly free to come at any time and make yourself at home," Mr. Dill urged lonesomely. "Sure. There's the old burg I do plumb enjoy seeing the sun making gold on a lot uh town windows, like that over there.
But then you really could not trust anybody as far as that. In all the world there was no one to whom she could go and freely pour out her unhappiness and her heart. A self-contained and self-sufficient girl, she now felt lonesomely that it would be a great comfort to talk everything over with somebody. Things seemed only to get worse by being kept locked up so tight in her own bosom.
That was the important thing now. He wrestled with the problem for a long time in vain. He was afraid to go to bed for fear of oversleeping again, and decided to stay up until train-time. But at length drowsiness overcame him, and for the few remaining hours he dreamed lonesomely of an oval face and big, black, velvet eyes.
"So every one tells me," she sighed. "I did not know of this arrangement," he added, looking up, a queer smile twisting his lips. "And now you are lonesomely miserable, like I am," she rejoined, crossing a restless leg. "No doubt you left your ideal in New York. Perhaps you are married already. Are you?" she cried eagerly, seizing his arm. "No such good luck for you," he added, under his breath.
She spent the day lonesomely enough, but when night fell her spirits brightened, and at a quarter of eight she set out. There was not much of comforting news to tell her. Gerhardt was still in a direfully angry and outraged mood. He had already decided to throw up his place on the following Saturday and go to Youngstown.
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