"Wait a moment! What's your hurry?" a young stallion shouted,
running after her hungrily
In another spot, on the lawn, I saw a young man in evening dress
chaffing a bare-shouldered girl who looked no more than fifteen
"What! Sweet sixteen and not yet kissed?" he said to her, aloud.
"Go on! I don't believe it. Anyhow, I'd like to be the fellow who's
going to get you."
"Would you? I'll tell your wife about it," the little girl replied, with
the good humor of a woman of forty
"Never mind my wife. But how about the fellow who is going to
marry you?"
"I'd like to see him myself. I hope he ain't going to be some boob."
The air was redolent of grass, flowers, ozone, and sex. All this was
flavored with Miss Tevkin's antipathy for me
CHAPTER V THE next morning I awoke utterly out of sorts. That
I was going to take the first train for Tannersville seemed to be a
matter of course, and yet I knew that I was not going to take that
train, nor any other that day. I dressed myself and went out for a
walk up the road, some distance beyond the grove.
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