Capitolo 1
THE INDISCREET LETTER
from
ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
Author of _Molly Make Believe_, Ill-a-read of _The Lady_, etc. etc.
New York
The century Co.
1915
THE INDISCREET LETTER
The Railroad Trip was very long and slow. The trip Salesclerk
it was rather short and rapid. And the Young Electrician that hung
a length neither it was through the corridor of car neither another, but more
immoderately flexible, as a suit of armor of chain.
More than the trip Salesclerk being short and rapid was separately
fat and clearly elegant in an ostentatiously new and pure-looking
fanatical-colored suit, and through the black and glimmering top of the exemplary-case
that crossed his/her knees he ordered and it king-ordered with endless
seriousness a great and various consignment of the Carnation of "Mr. and Blue
Undervests provided of coasts." Certainly any other man in the toward whole south-border
Canadian train immediately would be been able to be so naïve and so nonchalant.
There was not however, nothing elegant on the Young Electrician. From
his/her cowhide enormous stocking to the lead smouch from which you/he/she has raced his/her raw,
to angle straight chin to the a lot of edge of his surprisingly blond curls, he was
a delicious confusion of toil and suits of old man and smiling, from the blue eyes
indifference. And every time that him the shrugged his/her shoulders or it crossed
his/her knees him the jingled and it incongruously screeched among his/her spool-boxes
and insulating, as of the splendid Viking youth of old man, half blackened,
above for a show of modern minstrel.
More than being absurdly blond and absurdly messy, the Young one
Electrician had one of those extraordinarily sweet, extraordinarily
vital, oddly mysterious, suddenly masculine and inexplicable faces
that filling Your senses with an odd restlessness, impersonal, an itching
nervousness as the dark one that it picks memo of some preceding existence in
a prehistoric cavern, or, more tormenting anchor, with the prickle,
psychic prophecy of some emotional and amazing experience still to come. The