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The shaggy old fellow blinked his eyes rapidly, then suddenly relieved his feelings with an outrageous burst of profanity. With a rapidity bewildering to his hearers, his tone instantly changed again to one of lachrymose solemnity: "'Gawd moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform!" he piously repeated. "AIN'T, now, he does, Tillie! Och!" he exclaimed, "I got a thought!
He seized her and kissed her, with resounding emphasis, squarely on the mouth. Instantly Tillie wrenched herself away from him and stood up. Her face was flushed and her eyes sparkled. And yet, she was not indignant with him in the sense that a less unsophisticated girl would have been. Absalom, according to New Canaan standards, was not exceeding his rights under the circumstances.
No doubt it was not so much the character of Brother Underwocht's New Mennonite sermon which effected this state in Tillie as that the spiritual condition of the young girl, just awakening to her womanhood, with all its mysterious craving, its religious brooding, its emotional susceptibility, led her to respond with her whole soul to the first appeal to her feelings.
We'll show this street that even Christine Lorenz can be outdone." And, as an afterthought: "I hope Max Wilson will settle down now. He's been none too steady." K. had taken Christine to see Tillie that Sunday afternoon. Palmer had the car out had, indeed, not been home since the morning of the previous day.
Me and you ain't got no show at all." Tillie could think of no way of escape from her desperate position. What was there before her but a return to the farm, or perhaps, at best, marriage with Absalom? "To be sure, I should have to be reduced to utter indifference to my fate if I ever consented to marry Absalom," she bitterly told herself.
McKee, and food, and Tillie, and of Mr. Wagner and the pencil pad. "It's like a game," he said. "We disagree on everything, especially Mexico. If you ever tried to spell those Mexican names " "Why did you think I was engaged?" she insisted.
But now, heedless of consequences, she sat down on a snow-covered log and opened Fairchilds's letter, her teeth chattering with more than cold. It was only a note, written in great haste and evidently under some excitement. It told her of his immediate departure for Cambridge to accept a rather profitable private tutorship to a rich man's son. He would write to Tillie, later, when he could.
There was Tillie, too. But one did not speak of her. She was married now, of course; but the Street did not tolerate such a reversal of the usual processes as Tillie had indulged in. It censured Mrs. McKee severely for having been, so to speak, and accessory after the fact. The Street made a resolve to keep K., if possible.
As long as her arm would bear the weight of the uplifted lamp, she gazed at her reflected image. When presently with trembling arm she set it on the dresser, Tillie, like Mother Eve of old, had tasted of the Tree of Knowledge. Tillie knew that she was very fair. That evening marked another crisis in the girl's inner life.
They walked on in silence for a few minutes. Tillie looked away into the starlit night and thought of Miss Margaret and wished she were alone, that her thoughts might be uninterrupted. Absalom, at her side, kicked up the dust with his heavy shoes, as he sulkily hung his head. Presently he spoke again.
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