[Richard Vandermarck by Miriam Coles Harris]@TWC D-Link bookRichard Vandermarck CHAPTER XXII 5/9
"I like you in it.
I am tired of those stiff little linen collars." The lace had given me a little compunction about not spending the evening with him: but as I had said so, I could not draw back; so I compromised the matter by going up to the library with him, to see that he was comfortable, before I came down to write my letter. I brought the little student-lamp from my own room and lit it, and put it on the library-table, and brought him some fresh pens, and opened the inkstand for him, even pushed up the chair and put a little footstool by it.
Though he was standing by the bookshelves, and seemed to be engrossed by them, I knew that he was watching me, filled with content and satisfaction. "Do you remember where that box of cigars was put ?" he said, turning to me as I paused.
That was to keep me longer; for they were on the shelf, half a yard from where he stood. I got the cigar-box and put it on the table. "Now you will want some matches, and this stand is almost empty." So I took it away with me to my room, and came back with it filled. "Is there anything else that I can do ?" I said, pausing as I put it on the table. "No, Pauline.
I believe not.
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